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How I learned to love the economic crisis: 2010 edition
The failed banks represent 0.18% of total FDIC bank assets and 0.22% of total FDIC insured bank deposits.
So your friend is right.
But then again, would you be happy if 0.2 cents of every dollar you held in a bank vanished in the first 3 months of 2010?
It seems likely we will achieve a near 1% level by the end of the year...
The other thing to keep in mind: the literally trillions spent to prop up the TBTF banks.
Makes the $23B for the failed banks of 2010 (thus far) seem insignificant...
The big difference imo is that the TBTF banks are needed to keep the flames of FIRE burning. An impaired regional banking system means the productive economy gets starved for credit. Would any worker or manufacturing firm in the USA really give a damn if Goldman Sachs disappeared?
Re: How I learned to love the economic crisis: 2010 edition
Originally posted by GRG55
The big difference imo is that the TBTF banks are needed to keep the flames of FIRE burning. An impaired regional banking system means the productive economy gets starved for credit. Would any worker or manufacturing firm in the USA really give a damn if Goldman Sachs disappeared?
Amen, brother.
I failed to note that the $23B in deposits that disappeared likely represented around $200B or more in loans.
Is that significant? I think so.
Of course the entire number of loans didn't vanish - some at least were assumed by the acquiring bank.
But systemically there is no question that total loans outstanding - both amounts and numbers - are falling.
only 7 this week. Including one of Obama's friend's
April 24 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias, the Democratic candidate seeking the seat once held by President Barack Obama in Illinois, vowed to press on with his campaign after regulators seized the bank his family owns.
“My campaign for the United States Senate goes forward, with a renewed determination to turn Illinois’s economy around and to fix what’s broken in Washington, D.C.,” Giannoulias said. Broadway Bank had been operating since January under terms of a consent order with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. because of commercial real-estate loan losses.
“Unlike the big Wall Street banks, there was no bailout for my father’s bank,” Giannoulias said, fighting back tears at a news conference at a Chicago hotel yesterday. “It is an incredibly sad and heartbreaking day for me and for my family.”
The bank, whose profits helped finance and provide credibility to Giannoulias’s successful 2006 state treasurer bid, has shaped a contest for a seat Democrats have unexpectedly found themselves defending and one that will help determine whether Obama’s party keeps its Senate majority.
Republican nominee Mark Kirk, 50, a five-term congressman from Chicago’s northern suburbs, has repeatedly suggested Giannoulias, 34, exercised bad judgment while working at the bank from 2002 through 2006 as a senior loan officer and vice president.
‘Risky Lending Schemes’
“While years of risky lending schemes, hot money investments and loans to organized crime led to today’s failure, it’s a sad day for Broadway Bank employees who may lose their jobs due to Mr. Giannoulias’ reckless business practices,” Kirk’s campaign said in a statement.
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