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A bank failure vs. bailout is irrelevant to the financial health to the bank's debtors. Failure vs. bailout is only important to the banks creditors.

Those who borrowed from the banks and went bankrupt were the cause, rather than the result, of the banking crisis (speaking purely from an accounting perspective -- no moral or policy judgement.)




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