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There didn't have to be an attack for this to happen

It may have been, but it equally could have been mass de-risking due to market conditions causing lots of UST withdrawals. Once the peg goes for a minute, confidence soon follows and the whole house of cards unwinds

LFG had $1.5B of reserves to plug a hole in a $18B leak. It never had a realistic chance of working (unless it was fast enough to stop the initial depeg, in which case it could have delayed the inevitable)



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