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RE: Another Bank shuts down buying Bitcoin with Credit Cards
Great point. While it might be foolish to "invest" in cryptos or anything else on credit, the banks would not care if they had no skin in the game.
(Recent) history tells us that if the banks could somehow make a profit on our risky investments or if they had any "insurance / bailouts" against any losses, they'd be falling all over themselves, scrambling to shovel more credit into our hands.
good point @majes.tytyty and thanks for the upvote and your valued comment.
The bigger banks can gamble on large risky investment portfolios, like sub-prime mortgages, because they are considered "too big to fail".
That is, the public by way of tax dollars must bail them out rather than let them go under if their large risky investment portfolios go sour.
The best phrase I ever heard about it stated that our system was "Heads I win, Tails you lose" capitalism. The big banks win no matter what.