Billionaire investor Invoice Ackman mentioned the U.S. authorities’s motion to guard depositors after the implosion of Silicon Valley Financial institution is “not a bailout” and helps restore confidence within the banking system.

In his newest tweet on SVB’s collapse, the hedge fund investor mentioned the U.S. authorities did the “proper factor.”

“This was not a bailout in any type. The individuals who screwed up will bear the results,” wrote the CEO of Pershing Sq.. “Importantly, our gov’t has despatched a message that depositors can belief the banking system.”

Ackman’s feedback got here after banking regulators introduced plans over the weekend to backstop depositors with cash at Silicon Valley Financial institution, which was shut down on Friday after a financial institution run.

“With out this confidence, we’re left with three or presumably 4 too-big-to-fail banks the place the taxpayer is explicitly on the hook, and our nationwide system of neighborhood and regional banks is toast,” Ackman added.

Ackman additional defined that on this incident, shareholders and bondholders of the banks might be primarily those affected, and the losses might be absorbed by the Federal Deposit Insurance coverage Company’s (FDIC) insurance coverage fund.

That is in distinction to the good monetary disaster in 2007-2008, the place the U.S. authorities injected taxpayers’ cash within the type of most well-liked inventory into banks, and bondholders have been protected.

The decisive authorities motion was seen by some as a important step in stemming contagion fears introduced on by the collapse of SVB, a key financial institution for start-ups and different venture-backed firms.

Not everybody agrees.

Peter Schiff, chief economist and international strategist at Euro Pacific Capital, mentioned the transfer is “one more mistake” by the U.S. authorities and the Fed.

He defined in one other tweet: “The bailout means depositors will put their cash within the riskiest banks and receives a commission larger curiosity, as there is no draw back threat.”

The consequence?

“… all banks will tackle higher dangers to pay larger charges. So within the long-run many extra banks will fall, with far higher long-term prices,” Schiff mentioned.

In a press release late Sunday — issued collectively by the Federal Reserve, Treasury Division and the FDIC — regulators mentioned there can be no bailouts and no taxpayer prices related to any of the brand new plans.

“Right now we’re taking decisive actions to guard the U.S. economic system by strengthening public confidence in our banking system,” mentioned a joint assertion from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and FDIC Chair Martin Gruenberg.

Together with that transfer, the Fed additionally mentioned it’s creating a brand new Financial institution Time period Funding Program geared toward safeguarding establishments affected by the market instability of the SVB failure.

The assertion — additionally mentioned New York-based Signature Financial institution might be closed as a result of systemic threat. Signature had been a preferred funding supply for cryptocurrency firms.

Ackman mentioned within the tweet that had the federal government “not intervened right now, we’d have had a Nineteen Thirties financial institution run persevering with very first thing Monday inflicting monumental financial injury and hardship to thousands and thousands.”

“Extra banks will possible fail regardless of the intervention, however we now have a transparent roadmap for the way the gov’t will handle them.”

Nonetheless, some analysts will not be satisfied the regulators’ motion will shore up confidence within the U.S. banking system and restrict the fallout. 

“I do not suppose that you may understate the hazard that the American banking system is in,” veteran financial institution analyst Dick Bove, advised CNBC’s “Squawk Field Asia” on Monday.

“Proper at this second, I do not suppose you’d count on to see the Treasury Secretary, the pinnacle of the Fed and the pinnacle of the FDIC, making a public joint assertion — until they understood clearly the danger that the banking system and the American in America is going through proper now,” he mentioned.

Bove identified the U.S. banking system is in danger for 2 causes.

“Primary, the depositors have misplaced religion in American banks: Neglect the individuals who could or could not have been taking cash out of SVB. Deposits in American banks have dropped 6% within the final 12 months,” he famous.

“The second group that has misplaced religion within the American banking system are traders,” he added. “The traders have misplaced religion as a result of the American banks have an entire bunch of accounting tips that they will play, to indicate earnings when earnings do not exist, to indicate capital when capital would not exist.”

He went on to say that accounting practices for the banking trade are “completely unacceptable,” and that banks are utilizing “accounting gimmickry to keep away from indicating what the true fairness is in these banks.”

“The federal government is now on its again toes. And the federal government is making an attempt to do no matter it might probably to cease what might be a significant, main destructive thrust,” Bove mentioned.

The White Home mentioned President Joe Biden will deal with the nation on Monday morning on the way to strengthen the banking system.

“I’m firmly dedicated to holding these chargeable for this mess totally accountable and to persevering with our efforts to strengthen oversight and regulation of bigger banks in order that we aren’t on this place once more,” Biden mentioned in a press release. 

Jeremy Siegel, Wharton Faculty of enterprise professor, famous the federal government’s intervention will “happily” stem the losses from SVB’s fallout.

He mentioned SVB is extra like a regional financial institution not like different huge Wall Road gamers. Because of this, the federal government is unlikely to take a political hit from its newest motion.

“They’re extra within the class we name regional banks. And truly,  politicians love regional banks, in distinction to the massive names, that are straightforward to focus on, to … hit politically,” Siegel advised CNBC’s “Road Indicators Asia.”

“They’ve a whole lot of political help. All of the Congress women and men, are going to be listening to from their folks and their district,” Siegel mentioned. “The smaller banks will not be the JP Morgans, Goldman Sachs and all these. These are the banks that we use … getting right down to the regional degree.”  

 — CNBC’s Jeff Cox contributed to this report.