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The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) was created primarily to address which problem?.

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The FDIC, or Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, is an agency created in 1933 during the depths of the Great Depression to protect bank depositors and ensure a level of trust in the American banking system.

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