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Yes, that's what they're supposed to do. Each of the individual bailouts in that list tells a pretty interesting story: in each case, the FDIC only had to pay out a small fraction of the bank's total assets, indicating that the reserve system functioned as intended.

WaMu, the biggest on the list, didn't require a single cent from the FDIC fund! But again, it would be okay if it did, because that's what it's there for.




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