Omidyar: The media is fanning a lot of different flames and I just want to put it in perspective. When there's a run on the banks, meaning more than 5% of the banks' depositors want their money back, the bank has to start selling these treasury bills at a significant loss. So they have to admit that they're losing money doing it and then they actually run out of money and they go under. This is a little different than 2008 because banks were buying super risky things, not super safe treasury bills. And this is what's causing the problems with the banks. If everybody believes all the banks are bankrupt, there'll be a huge run," O

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