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		JumpCrisscross 12 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: US private credit defaults hit record 9.2% in 2025... > If the bank has trouble, shareholders/executives lose - if the banking system has trouble... then QE will solve the bank trouble It's a game of chicken, though. The folks at Lehman and SVB didn't cash out. JPMorgan did. (Both times. Actually, all of the times since 1907.)

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timacles 12 days ago | [–]

Jamie pull up the JP Morgan titanic conspiracy theory

https://www.history.com/articles/titanic-sinking-conspiracy-...

wbl 12 days ago | [–]

JP threw his own money on the table . Silicon valley's VCs whined for bailouts.

AdamN 12 days ago | [–]

And they got them.

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