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Excerpt from The Economist -- "'Collective attempts at liquidation to meet withdrawal requests would lead to ruinous fire sales,' write Stephen Cecchetti of Brandeis University and Kim Schoenholtz of New York University. 'After this happened even once, people would simply flock to the narrow banks, and there would be no source of lending.' To prevent this, the authors argue, governments would have to intervene to save the 'not-so-narrow intermediaries.'"

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