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> Yellen has just broadcast that FDIC insurance is essentially unlimited, as long as you can threaten wider disruption to the economy

"If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem." - J. Paul Getty

(Or as I heard it more aptly paraphrased, "if you owe the bank a million dollars, the bank owns you. If you owe the bank a billion dollars, you own the bank.")




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