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by haldujai 1140 days ago
At the very least that’s missing Fannie, Freddie, Bear, Merrill, Lehman, TARP and arguably AIG for another 1.2T+, granted a lot of this was eventually repaid as the FDIC will be as well.
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None of those are consumer banks. Every dataset has to make scope decisions.
If we're comparing the Great Recession which was not caused by or relatively impacted consumer banks it seems arbitrary to limit the dataset to them.