““That being said, it may be that opponents of bailouts are not worried about public officials' behavior at all. Perhaps the strategic behavior that we are trying to avoid is on the lender's side, not on the government's. A standard objection to bailouts is that investors anticipating a bailout will be too aggressive in extending credit. They too have a potential moral hazard that needs to be remedied.””
![“This ... he largest financial bailout in history ... was not just a bailout of SVB [Silicon Valley Bank]. It was a bailout of over fifty thousand SVB depositors with over $170 billion in deposits. It was a bailout of SVB's customers, it's employees, their suppliers, and the entire high-tech…” quote by James Rickards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/385/james-rickards-25234_around-the-world_this-he-largest-financial-bailout-in-his_360776.jpg)
