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Said in May 2006….”

The stage is set, for most Americans the collapse will be felt in their retirement accounts and 401(k). The next level of pain will be their home valuations, and lastly the cost of food and energy. It will be up to you to take the necessary steps to preserve your wealth by using protective stops and put options if you own individual stocks.

MarketWatch.com

By John Letzing,

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Cleveland-based AmTrust Bank, with 66 branches and roughly $8 billion in deposits, was closed by regulators Friday, as the ongoing credit crunch continued to claim victims.

Three smaller banks in Georgia, an Illinois-based bank and a Virginia bank were also shuttered, bringing the 2009 total to 130.

The three Georgia-based bank failures bring that state’s total this year to 24.

Flash back in time since April 2009… when only 23 banks had failed!

Huffington Post

2 more banks fail, lifting this year’s tally to 23

Apr 10, 2009 … This year’s tally of 23 bank failures is nearing the total for all of … to 25 for this year and 50 since start of 2008 for the failed banks…

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L. William Seidman is the chief commentator on cable network’s CNBC-TV and publisher of “Bank Director” magazine. He is also one of the principal founders of Grand Valley State University in Michigan, where the Seidman College of Business was named in honor of his father…

Prior to that, he served as the fourteenth chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation from 1985 to 1991. He became the first chairman of the Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC) in 1989 and served until 1991.

During his tenure at the FDIC, the agency handled over one thousand bank failures and took over the administration of the insurance fund of the S&L industry. While at the RTC, he supervised the creation of an 8,000 person agency handling over $400 billion in assets from failed S&Ls. He brought to the position a record of accomplishments as a businessman, educator and public servant.

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STEVENSON JACOBS

NEW YORK — The head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said Tuesday she’s “very worried” that the nation’s biggest banks aren’t lending enough and warned the economy could take another turn for the worse without increased access to credit.

FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair said the FDIC’s upcoming quarterly report would show that “not many large institutions are doing a very good job of lending.” Instead, she said, some are taking advantage of near-zero interest rates by borrowing dollars cheaply to buy higher-yielding assets like stocks or commodities – a move known as the “carry trade.”

Addressing the rash of bank failures, Bair said the FDIC had enough funds to shut down troubled banks and would tap its line of credit with the Treasury only as a last resort. There have been 120 bank failures this year, …

The Huffington Post

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