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Old 05-27-2008, 08:24 AM
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Originally Posted by weissheit View Post
...marketwatch recently had an article about FDIC bringing back the regulators that closed down all the failed S&Ls of the 80's & 90's. The cited 2 criteria of a troubled bank, the "Texas ratio" (named after all the oil patch S&Ls that went under) of non-performing/defaulting loans/assets to depository assets (not sure going off memory) and high CD rates.
Here is a link to that article: MarketWatch - Bank Failures to Surge

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