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- From: robert@slipknot.rain.com (Robert Reed)
- Subject: Re: Ignorance - Was Re: VOTE, BABY, VOTE!
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- Reply-To: robert@slipknot.rain.com.UUCP (Robert Reed)
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 03:10:20 GMT
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- In article <g3F=2F-@engin.umich.edu> jwh@citi.umich.edu writes:
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- |My position is that deposit insurance should not be required, and where
- |it exists it should be provided by private firms. If there is a market
- |for 'safe' investments, a bank will purchase the appropriate level of
- |insurance to meet their customers demands. The insurance company will
- |certainly demand that the bank meet certain criteria or else the insurer
- |will raise prices or cancel coverage. From your posts I had assumed that
- |you felt that government deposit insurance should be continued and that
- |raising the limit in the 70's was a good idea.
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- I have no problem with that. But that's a far cry from where this discussion
- started when someone (and I don't know if it was you) claimed that deposit
- insurance is STUPID.
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