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- “FDIC”
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Category: Central Banking, Deposit Insurance, and Economic Decline, Mises Media, Summits and Seminars, Mises Circle Seminars
Online Publish Date: October 26, 2012
Presented at the Mises Circle in Manhattan, hosted by the Ludwig von Mises Institute and sponsored by the Story Garschina Charitable Fund, and Anonymous Donor.Recorded on Friday, 14 September 2012, at the Metropolitan Club in New York City.
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Online Publish Date: October 31, 2009
Nine banks with a total of 153 offices were seized last evening, opening today as branches of the appropriately named U.S. Bank.“The FDIC and U.S. Bank entered into a loss-share transaction on approximately $14.4 billion of the combined purchased assets of $18.2 billion. U.S. Bank will share in the losses on the asset pools covered under the loss-share agreement. The loss-sharing arrangement is...
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Power & Market
Online Publish Date: March 27, 2020
Our rulers want us to ignore the tried and true adage that cash is king in a crisis. The FDIC has just released a video exhorting people to keep their money in the banks. The spokesperson is the FDIC Chairman herself, Jelena McWilliams, who earnestly assures us: "Your money's safe at the banks. The last thing you want to be doing is pulling your money out of the banks thinking it's going to be...
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Online Publish Date: May 10, 2012
Victoria McGrane reports for the Wall Street Journal that the FDIC says it has it all figured out as to how it will unwind those huge, complicated, multinational financial institutions should the need arise. McGrane writes,The FDIC, known more for its bank deposit insurance, is working to persuade major investors, analysts, economists and bankers that it is building an apparatus that could...
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Category: Mises Media, The Business Cycle
Online Publish Date: July 13, 2009
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Power & Market
Online Publish Date: March 27, 2020
Nuestros gobernantes quieren que ignoremos el probado y verdadero adagio de que el dinero es el rey en una crisis. La FDIC acaba de publicar un video exhortando a la gente a mantener su dinero en los bancos. La portavoz es la propia presidenta de la FDIC, Jelena McWilliams, quien nos asegura seriamente: «Su dinero está seguro en los bancos. Lo último que quieres hacer es sacar tu dinero de los...
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Category: Mises Daily Articles
Online Publish Date: June 11, 2009
It's widely acknowledged that hundreds if not thousands of banks are on the ropes and just waiting for regulators to wrap them in yellow tape some Friday evening. However, fewer than forty US banks have been seized this year. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) list of problem banks grew to 305 in the first quarter, the highest number since 1994, but of course the names of those...
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Category: Mises Daily Articles
Online Publish Date: September 12, 2008
If Ludwig von Mises were to peruse today's newspapers, he would recognize the symptoms of a worldwide central-bank-generated credit bubble and its oncoming collapse.What increasingly characterizes the global financial order, Mises would say, is an arrangement where regulators encourage a "heads I win, tails everyone else loses" mentality, backstopped by the willingness of quasi-governmental...
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Category: Mises Daily Articles
Online Publish Date: November 19, 2007
For those who have been speculating on how the government might bail out participants in the collapsing US subprime mortgage market, an unlikely savior has stepped forward: the Federal Home Loan Banks (FHLB).Compared to their limelight-hogging cousins — the Federal Reserve, Freddie Mac, and Fannie Mae — the FHL Banks don't get much press. But from March to September, the amount of loans these...
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Category: Minor Issues, Mises Media, Commentary
Online Publish Date: March 18, 2023
SVB Bank and Signature Bank failed this week and were bailed out. Mark explains why the banks failed and why it was bound to happen. The minor issue is that the total FDIC bailout fund is actually smaller than either one of the banks.
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Category: Audio Mises Wire, Mises Media, Audio Articles, Mises Daily Articles
Online Publish Date: March 21, 2023
The Fed is launching a new billionaire bailout designed to keep banks afloat, and the FDIC is promising to back potentially trillions in deposits. The taxpayer will ultimately be on the hook.
Original Article: "Yes, the Latest Bank Bailout Is Really a Bailout, and You Are Paying for It."
This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon.
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Category: Mises Daily Articles
Online Publish Date: August 25, 2008
"There will be more bank failures, but nothing compared with previous cycles, such as the savings-and-loans days," Sheila Bair, chairwoman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC), said in an interview recently after $32 billion IndyMac was seized by Bair's organization.The IndyMac failure is the second largest in history behind the failure of the $41 billion Continental Illinois National...
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Wire
Online Publish Date: August 1, 2019
It was announced earlier this month that Piper Jaffray is buying boutique investment banker Sandler O’Neill & Partners L.P. for $485 million. The Wall Street Journal reported,
Sandler O’Neill is a leader in advising small and midsize banks on deals, having been involved in 355 bank mergers since 2010, according to Dealogic. It is an area that Piper Jaffray has wanted to enter for some time...
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Category: Mises Daily Articles
Online Publish Date: October 27, 2010
[Speech given at The Economic Recovery: Washington's Big Lie, the Supporters Summit for the Ludwig von Mises Institute, October 8, 2010.]Every Friday evening a few more banks are closed — seized by the various state banking regulators and handed over to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) for liquidation. This all happens rather quietly, barely making the news. We're told these bank...
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Online Publish Date: November 19, 2007
For those who have been speculating on how the government might bail out participants in the collapsing US subprime mortgage market, John Paul Koning writes that an unlikely savior has stepped forward: the Federal Home Loan Banks (FHLB), established in the midst of the Great Depression to provide a stable source of funding for member thrifts, otherwise known as savings & loan associations.The...
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Online Publish Date: September 29, 2008
Austrian Bailout Package—Part ASuspend Basil II regulations (to at least 4/2/09)Cancel FDIC insurance on all demand deposits after 1/1/09.Increase FDIC premiums on short term time deposits of less than one year.Make interest earned (starting 1/1/09) on bank time deposits and non-governmental, non-agency, and non-authority bonds tax free (not demand deposits and MMMF).Convert Fannie Mae and...
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Online Publish Date: March 13, 2023
Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) failed on Friday and was shut down by regulators. It was the second-largest failure in US history and the first since the global financial crisis. Almost immediately, the calls for bailouts started to come in. (Since Friday, First Republic Bank has failed, and many other banks are facing collapse.)
In fact, on March 9, even before SVB failed, billionaire investor Bill...
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Category: Mises Daily Articles
Online Publish Date: December 12, 2019
[This article is featured in chapter 78 of Making Economic Sense by Murray Rothbard and originally appeared in the March, 1991 edition of The Free Market.]
There has been a veritable revolution in the attitude of the nation's economists, as well as the public, toward our banking system. Ever — since 1933, it was a stern dogma a virtual article of faith — among economic textbook authors, financial...
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Category: The Free Market, Journals, Institute Publications
The Free Market 9, no. 3 (March 1991) There has been a veritable revolution in the attitude of the nation's economists, as well as the public, toward our banking system. Ever since 1933, it was a stem dogma—a virtual article of faith—among economic textbooks, financial writers, and all establishment economists from Keynesians to Milton Friedman, that our commercial banking system was super-safe....
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Online Publish Date: August 1, 2019
A principios de este mes se anunció que Piper Jaffray está comprando al banquero de inversión boutique Sandler O'Neill & Partners L.P. por 485 millones de dólares. El Wall Street Journal informó,
Sandler O'Neill es líder en el asesoramiento a bancos pequeños y medianos en operaciones, habiendo participado en 355 fusiones bancarias desde 2010, según Dealogic. Es un área en la que Piper Jaffray...