[Godel_unicode]

First, since we’re comparing numbers to each other, you should go back before Wednesday to get a real number for pre-run market cap, it’s about 2.5x that. Not that it really matters.

Second, just so we’re clear is your point that the holders of that $6B-$15B of useless paper won’t care because it’s less than $150B? At the end of the day, you don’t care what percent of the bag you’re holding, just that you’re holding it.

[svnt]

No, the point is that shareholders of the bank are investors in the bank, and investment comes with the risk of loss. Depositors in a bank are not investors in that bank.

[yawpitch]

> Depositors in a bank are not investors in that bank.

No, they’re not. But until just now depositors in any other bank assumed the risk for any deposit in excess of $250K… and if these depositors weren’t morally different than the depositors that would absolutely have lost their wealth in excess of $250K when their chosen bank did a stupid thing, then they’d have paid the piper just like you and I would have.

These special depositors are getting special treatment and aren’t suffering what countless non-special depositors have suffered… the rules are changing because of who took the risk, that’s the very definition of moral hazard at work.

[RhodesianHunter]

Their point is that the value of equity is insignificant to the upper class, as compared to the value of the uninsured deposits.

IE the equity isn't enough to leverage political capital. The deposits are.