Showing posts with label banking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label banking. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Could a Cyprus-style banks robbery happen in the U.S.?

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This past weekend was spent semi-unplugged.  Heck I didn't know that Miami had beaten UNC for the ACC Basketball Tournament title until ...
Sunday, March 07, 2010

Iceland citizens vote no on government bailout of failed bank

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I don't get it: why don't those Icelanders take on the extra $3.5 billion in debt that would have been incurred by their politicians...
Monday, November 02, 2009

Think Switzerland is the world's most secretive place for banking?

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According to the Tax Justice Network based out of Great Britain, the most secretive financial jurisdiction on Earth is actually... the stat...
Sunday, October 18, 2009

FDIC without adequate funds until 2012 (at least)

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The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is in the red , and it's going to stay that way for another two years. Meanwhile the ninety-ni...
Thursday, August 27, 2009

1,000 banks to fail across America?

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That's what John Kanas of BankUnited is now saying . Kanas believes that a thousand banks - mostly small, privately-run institutions - ...
Thursday, July 16, 2009

Man charged $23,148,855,308,184,500.00 for pack of cigarettes

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Josh Muszynski of Manchester, New Hampshire went to the local convenience store and bought a pack of Camel cigarettes. He put the purchase ...
Wednesday, March 04, 2009

FDIC may become insolvent (Uh-oh....)

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"Gloom, despair, and agony on me. Deep dark depression, excessive misery." The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation - the governm...
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Monday, February 16, 2009

Banker gives $60 million of own money to his employees

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Lately it seems like the "feel good" stories have become even more few and far between. So when one is found, I feel more than a ...
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Friday, September 05, 2008

U.S. federal government set to take over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

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Read the story here . This is, by an order of some magnitude, a much more important story than McCain versus Obama right now. It's also...
Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Major bank about to go under? Reliable source says yes.

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A major American bank is not just teetering perilously close to failing, "it's unavoidable", a source has told The Knight Shif...
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