Saturday, October 31, 2009

TRICK OR TREAT?

TRICK OR TREAT?
WOW! WE HIT THE 12 TRILLION MARK FOR DEBT.
9 MORE BANKS FAILED THIS WEEK, TAKING THIS YEAR'S TOTAL TO 115 FAILED BANKS.
National Debt Clock


5 comments:

D.K. Raed said...

9 banks in one week, even if they were all part of the same holding company, is a lot. However, the CNN link buried the lead, which IMO is:


"This year's failures have already reduced the FDIC's insurance fund to below $10 billion from $45 billion a year ago. Friday's closure will cost the FDIC an estimated $2.5 billion.

"After factoring in expected closures, the agency says its insurance fund is in the red and will remain there through 2012. Over the next four years, the agency expects bank closures will cost $100 billion."

In the red through '12? Bad campaign slogan: Get back in the black in '13!

Fran said...

AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
(Blood curdling scream)

Fran said...

By the way, didn't BUSH up the amount of money insured by the FDIC to $250,000 to prove that the US financial system is .... stable?

Yea right! At some point they will shrug & say
Ooops! Guess not.

D.K. Raed said...

FDIC coverage was increased to $250K and "coincidentally" that increase expires in 2012!

ps, loved the wolf howl ... we hear lots of coyotes around the SW, but no wolves (that I know of, at least not outside Hollywood).

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