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You can regulate the minimum reserves banks have.


That's not enough. SVB had reserves.

SVB had two other problems that would not be identified simply by looking at minimum amounts: duration risk and lack of liquidity.


From what I understood, they had the minimum reserves because SVB and other banks lobbied to have it lower.




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