Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has observed: Even a bank that is solvent under normal conditions

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Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has observed: “Even a bank that is solvent under normal conditions can rarely survive a sustained run.”
a. What does Bernanke mean by “solvent under normal conditions”?
b. What does he mean by a “sustained run”? Why can’t a bank survive a sustained run?

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Money, Banking, and the Financial System

ISBN: 978-0134524061

3rd edition

Authors: R. Glenn Hubbard, Anthony Patrick O'Brien

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