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Feds close banks in GA, FL - Must be Friday!

derrybderryb Posts: 36,795 ✭✭✭✭✭
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The economy must be improving:

Only three this time!

"Interest rates, the price of money, are the most important market. And, perversely, they’re the market that’s most manipulated by the Fed." - Doug Casey

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  • cohodkcohodk Posts: 19,108 ✭✭✭✭✭
    And a new one came public.

    http://www.fiercefinance.com/story/first-interstate-bancsystem-spark-more-bank-ipos/2010-03-25
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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,122 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>The economy must be improving:

    Only thre this time! >>



    I think the Feds are just running out of banks to close.image

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
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  • derrybderryb Posts: 36,795 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Most of them don't get closed, they just get absorbed by the highest bidder. When it's all over there will only be about 5 Very Big banks (as planned).

    "Interest rates, the price of money, are the most important market. And, perversely, they’re the market that’s most manipulated by the Fed." - Doug Casey

  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,128 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>The economy must be improving:

    Only three this time! >>




    Um, I count four.......
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  • RWBRWB Posts: 8,082 ✭
    During the 1920s the rate was 500 a year. Most depositors got little payout.
    During the S&L crisis during the Regan administration hundreds of banks/S&Ls were closed. State chartered ones sometimes left nothing for depositors.
  • OPAOPA Posts: 17,119 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>During the 1920s the rate was 500 a year. Most depositors got little payout.
    During the S&L crisis during the Regan administration hundreds of banks/S&Ls were closed. State chartered ones sometimes left nothing for depositors. >>



    Yup...I remember it well ... Along with the RTC.
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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,122 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I remember when Old Court Savings and Loan went under in Baltimore. Before they closed their doors, there were lines several blocks long with people desperately trying to get their money out. I was working in downtown Baltimore at the time and when I saw what was going on, it was totally surreal. Talk about a flashback to the Great Depression. The S&L was state chartered and insured by the Maryland State Savings and Loan Insurance Commission and not by the State of Maryland as many had assumed. These S&L's paid a slightly higher interest rate than federal banks with real insurance---FDIC. After several years, the depositors were paid by the State of Maryland at the expense of the tax payers but they lost any interest.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

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