Simon Johnson writes in Economix for the NYT that with the FDIC having unlimited drawing power from the FED in case of emergency and also with online banking, a depression era, consumer-type run on a bank in which people lined up to withdraw their money is no longer likely.  However, a new kind of run where investors run from a bank’s equity and perhaps debt securities is a very real possibility.

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