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FDIC approves sharp increase in 2010 budget

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By MARCY GORDON, AP Business Writer – 52 mins ago

WASHINGTON – The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said Tuesday its 2010 budget will jump to $4 billion from $2.6 billion this year, and announced plans to hire more than 1,600 mostly temporary employees as it continues to grapple with a rising number of bank failures.

So far this year, 133 U.S. banks have succumbed to the soured economy and a cascade of loan defaults — the most in a year since 1992 at the height of the savings-and-loan crisis. They compare with 25 last year and three in 2007. The failures have cost the federal deposit insurance fund more than $30 billion so far this year.

FDIC approves massive budget increase
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