So, what this bank levy does is, essentially, charge an insurance premium for the insurance coverage on offer: and charges it only on those deposits which are not already insured and paying an insurance fee under other schemes.
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"It is what the Bank always does on this sort of occasion, " said a banker.
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What remains at the end of this is a reasonably healthy bank.
The second question is a particularly resonant one - in that Mr Diamond has told the regulators that he neither instructed Barclays' managers to understate the bank's borrowing costs nor did he know this is what they were doing.
So, what a bank actually does is borrow short and lend long: Brad Delong has used this as a definition of a bank.
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This is what occurs to Henry David as he squats on the bank of Fair Haven Bay, a third of the distance from Mount Misery to the center of Concord.
"There is an obsession with these GDP numbers, and what really matters at this point is reform, " said Simpfendorfer, a former Royal Bank of Scotland economist.
This is because Lendio only sends borrowers that are particularly suited to what each bank is looking for, says Levi King, president and COO at Salt Lake City-based Lendio.
It marked a cumulative loss of nearly 4 percent this week, after Egypt's central bank took steps in what bankers believe is an attempt to control the devaluation of the currency.
Now God forbid the Fed should tell us this is what is going on, it will only be perceived as another bank bailout (which it is.) Better to keep us guessing to slow down the market reactions and to avoid those unintended consequences.
The reason any of this matters is that what is being sold is largely a small-business bank - almost two-thirds of its loans are to businesses, especially smaller ones - and right now one of the alleged great scandals of the British economy is the great shortage of choice for small businesses in the provision of vital finance.
If the lawsuit is decided against Bank of America, this would mean additional charges over and above what has already been provisioned for by the bank besides additional litigation charges.
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From now on, whenever inflation is one percentage point above or below the target, the Bank will have to account for this in an open letter to the chancellor, and say what it is doing to put matters right.
Chase understands what this latest heat is all about, said a source familiar with what is the largest US bank when measured by assets.
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This is what happens to countries that are mismanaged by politicians with complicity from bureaucrats and their central bank.
If house prices in general are moving in line with the price of a typical house, this approach gives a good guide to changes in housing wealth, which is what matters for the Bank of England as it assesses the economy.
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