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Obama to tap Yellen for Fed vice chair:source| Reuters
BBC News – Rove ‘proud’ of US waterboarding terror suspects
Walmart vende la Barbie negra a mitad de precio que la blanca ¿discriminación? – elConfidencial.com
Examiner sees gimmicks in Lehman demise| Reuters
FDIC: Failed Bank Information – Bank Closing Information for LibertyPointe Bank, New York, NY
Americans’ [...]

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Below is a partial list of January 2010 FDIC enforcement decisions and orders. I have only included cease-and-desist orders, prompt corrective action notices and termination of insurance orders as these are the signs of banking system distress.
FINAL ORDERS ISSUED PURSUANT TO SECTION 8(b), 12 U.S.C. § 1818(b) Cease-and-Desist
Peoples Independent Bank, Boaz, AL; [...]

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Debt sustainability: Not so risk-free | The Economist
Spain’s economic stagnation: The zapping of Zapatero | The Economist
Race in America: Move your shadow | The Economist
Greece must follow Ireland to solve fiscal woes — Cowen – European, Business – Independent.ie
FDIC: FDIC Provides Additional Information on its Loss Share Agreement With OneWest Bank [...]

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Today, I received a press release from the complete list of federal government regulators of the financial industry which all but ordering banks to lend to small businesses. Clearly, regulators are concerned as comments by Marc Chandler intimated in my last post.
The regulators supporting the press release were the following: The Board of Governors of [...]

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Below is a partial list of December FDIC enforcement decisions and orders. I have only included cease-and-desist orders, prompt corrective action notices and termination of insurance orders as these are the signs of banking system distress.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) today released a list of orders of administrative enforcement actions taken against banks and [...]

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Sheila Bair is a straight shooter. And as such, she laid it on the line today in her prepared remarks before Congress.  Her remarks were on the money on several counts. I will highlight just a few with commentary followed by the relevant quotes. A link to the testimony is provided at the end. Notice [...]

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FDIC Chairperson Sheila Bair has released her own proposal to compete with a recently floated proposal for a tax on bank compensation.  Her proposal calls for linking compensation with FDIC insurance levies as a means of aligning incentives in the banking industry going forward. In contrast, the competing initiative calls for a one-off ‘windfall’ tax [...]

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Below is a partial list of November FDIC enforcement decisions and orders. I have only included cease-and-desist orders, prompt corrective action notices and termination of insurance orders as these are the signs of banking system distress.
FINAL ORDERS ISSUED PURSUANT TO SECTION 8(b), 12 U.S.C. § 1818 Cease-and-Desist
EvaBank, Eva, AL; FDIC-09-341b; Issued [...]

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This is bank failure #140 and it has $6.1 billion in assets.
First Federal Bank of California, a Federal Savings Bank, Santa Monica, California, was closed today by the Office of Thrift Supervision, which appointed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) as receiver. To protect the depositors, the FDIC entered into a purchase and assumption agreement [...]

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They keep coming and this one is big. It is #139.
Capital Bank, La Jolla, California
Imperial Capital Bank, La Jolla, California, was closed today by the California Department of Financial Institutions, which appointed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) as receiver. To protect the depositors, the FDIC entered into a purchase and assumption agreement with City [...]