oldfart
Older than dirt
As long as the government backs up deposits in the banks, those banks ought to be regulated to prevent them taking the kinds of risks they took.
Banks that want to play the high risk games ought not to be so backed up by FDIC.
I don't think the deposit insurance system has much to do with it. It never covered the large "hot money" deposits. What REALLY was the bailout was the use of the FDIC to guarantee bank holding company debt and other measures forced on the FDIC by Treasury and the Fed in 2008--2010. The trillions of these bailout guarantees were at least four times the amount of insured deposits in the country's banking system. Anybody read Shiela Bair's book?