Archive for March, 2010

Lawrence County School Employees Federal Credit Union New Castle, Pa.

Friday, March 5th, 2010

Lawrence County School Employees Federal Credit Union New Castle, Pa. became the fourth liquidation of a federally insured credit union this year. NCUA announced this afternoon that it has liquidated the $2.5 million Lawrence County School Employees Federal Credit Union, which had been headquartered in New Castle, Pa. At the time of ...

Centennial Bank, Ogden, Utah

Friday, March 5th, 2010

Centennial Bank, Ogden, Utah, failed today when the FDIC approved the payout of insured deposits. It is the 26th FDIC-insured institution to fail this year. The FDIC estimates the cost of the failure to its Deposit Insurance Fund to be approximately $96.3 million. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) approved the ...

Bank of Illinois, Normal, IL

Friday, March 5th, 2010

Bank of Illinois, Normal, IL becomes the 24th FDIC-insured institution to fail in 2010,at an estimated cost to the Deposit Insurance Fund (DIF) will be $53.7 million. Bank of Illinois, Normal, Illinois, was closed today by the Illinois Department of Financial Professional Regulation – Division of Banking, which appointed the Federal ...

Sun American Bank, Boca Raton, Florida

Friday, March 5th, 2010

Sun American Bank, Boca Raton, Florida, became the 23rd FDIC-insured institution to fail in 2010,at an estimated cost to the Deposit Insurance Fund (DIF) will be $103.8 million. Sun American Bank, Boca Raton, Florida, was closed today by the Florida Office of Financial Regulation, which appointed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ...

Are The Banks The New Big Brother?

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

Steve Dibert I have been rereading Frank Herbert’s science fiction masterpiece, Children of Dune and I came across this interesting passage from the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood: “Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade the pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, ...