During the financial crisis some traders used it to spread rumors about potential bank failures.
Bank failures would lead to bankrupt banks unable to meet their derivative obligations to their counterparties.
Unless anti-equity policies are phased out, future crises and bank failures will recur.
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Clearly, there are more ways to get into a depression than just cascading bank failures.
And cascading bank failures are exactly the thing that will tumble us into a new depression.
High default rates on construction loans were a major contributor to bank failures during the recession.
The market thinks the worst is not over for mortgage defaults and big bank failures.
Both Latvia and Slovenia are seeing rising bond yields and at least two bank failures.
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Without this bank, Morici says there will be more bank failures than there could have been.
There were 140 bank failures in 2009 with a peak of 50 in the third quarter.
Falling prices also inflate the real burden of debt, causing bankruptcies and bank failures.
It was one of the big bank failures of the Asian financial crisis.
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Yet, in countries like Brazil there are no talks of bank failures, or severe fiscal imbalances.
Ominously, the Federal Deposit Insurance is staffing up in anticipation of bank failures.
Someone once said that blaming greed for bank failures is akin to blaming gravity for airplane crashes.
Bair has said she expects bank failures to peak this year before beginning to taper off.
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But that doesn't always happen and we still have bank failures where uninsured depositors do take losses.
Central banks have practiced this lender-of-last-resort function with reckless abandon, provoking bank failures and monetary crises galore.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is fast running out of money, thanks to more and more bank failures.
It appears that the FDIC is slowing bank failures even though their list of problem banks totals 775.
On September 3rd, the three opposition parties unveiled their own package of bills for dealing with bank failures.
But steep falls in the value of Italian or Spanish government debt risk a wave of bank failures.
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Its deposits are FDIC-insured against bank failures (not, of course, against currency losses).
And we agreed on an approach to ensure that taxpayers are not asked to pay for future bank failures.
Once again, he, as is the case with many others, is saying that bank failures put the burden on taxpayers.
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Florida and California were 2nd and 4th for bank failures from 2008-2011 and Washington was tied for 5th with Minnesota.
The financial fallout -- bank failures, risking a stock market crash, worthless retirement and pension funds -- could kill us.
Clearly, bankers reeling from the shocks of the Depression, including many bank failures, did not regard those reserves as excess.
New rules on prudent banking are seen as vital to bolster the euro, as bank failures triggered the financial crash.
Last week regulators took over IndyMac Bancorp, a mortgage lender, in one of the biggest bank failures in American history.
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