the federal deposit insurance corp on tuesday put up for sale 392 million of mortgagebacked bonds it took over from failed banks last month according to data from empirasign results of the auction will serve as a litmus test for how much the government can recover on billions of dollars worth of bonds that silicon valley bank and signature bank owned when the fdic took them over “per the median price guidance from the six dealers who have published price talk so far the government should expect to get back around 86 cents on the dollar for the entire portfolio” said adam murphy empirasign’s founder