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You're arguing that banks should subsidize their payment department with the profits from their investment department when safe investments like treasuries no longer yield interest. Basically, asking that banks should take ever larger risks to subsidize your bank account, simultaneously risking your bank account in the process.

That's how you get an economy in which banks are too systematically important to fail and therefore must always be bailed out, no matter what.






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