Professor Kenneth E. Scott is quoted in an American Banker story about the FDIC's reserves in view of the recent collapse of three banks:

"If I were there, I think I would be a little nervous, and I would be running stress tests," said Kenneth Scott, an emeritus professor at Stanford Law School.

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Prof. Scott agreed, noting again that the fund is backed up by other government facilities.

"The fund itself is not an adequate-to-all-circumstances kind of operation," he said. "It's sort of your first line of defense, so to speak, and then you can back it up by making additional assessments."