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> Depositors received a benefit beyond previously promised insurance and benefits.

?? The FDIC has always made all depositors whole. They have never stuck to the 250k I don't know why people have the impression they are doing something different then they have always done in this case; I just it's just extreme ignorance?




> The FDIC has always made all depositors whole.

As I have already pointed out to you elsewhere, this is a falsehood. The FDIC is not permitted to pay out beyond the $250,000 except if a "systemic risk exception" is made.

If you click on random banks in receivership, you can see the dividend payments made to depositors above $250,000.

E.g. https://closedbanks.fdic.gov/dividends/bankfind/Dividendinde...

Sunrise Bank of Arizona depositors received 91.747% of their uninsured amounts. This is a typical outcome.

Then you can find other banks, like Enloe State Bank

https://closedbanks.fdic.gov/dividends/bankfind/Dividendinde...

where the total paid was 39.662%.

> I just it's just extreme ignorance?

You should really educate yourself before you claim others are exhibiting "extreme ignorance."


> The FDIC has always made all depositors whole.

They usually manage to facilitate a bank takeover which does that, or sacrifices only some portion of uninsured brokered deposits, but there are certainly plenty of cases where that is not the case.




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