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by hnfong 1193 days ago
> The lesson here is sudden interest rate increases can cause bank failures. This was a mostly unknown unknown.

What? It's only unknown if all you know about financial crises are from 2008.

A google search on "borrowing short and lending long" gives this in the first page:

http://www.bondeconomics.com/2015/09/banks-borrowing-short-a...