• That being said, however, it is important to note that we stand ready to adjust our monthly purchases in either direction, if required, to maintain favourable financing conditions.
In addition, the Board rejects the notion that any bank is too big to fail. In the FDIC Improvement Act of 1991 (FDICIA), the Congress made it clear that the systemic-risk exception to the FDIC's least-cost resolution of a failing bank should be invoked only under the most unusual circumstances.