Bank Failure 106: First Dupage Bank, Westmont, Illinois

Rank	Name	Points
#1	Rajesh	2,636
#2	HomeGnome	2,370
#3	GDD9000	1,652
#4	RE	1,650
#5	Nanoo-Nanoo	1,506
#6	NGBROI	1,250
#7	Blackhalo	1,150
#8	Bubblisimo Gerkinov	1,150
#9	Terry	900
#10	JP	866

Nemo wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:16 pm

Whoa, major Dupe-age

Mohammed Imar Bruce Lee wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:17 pm

And next on 106 FM, let's crack out the Bobby Bare for Sheila Bair
"Pour me another Tequila Sheila,
lay down and love me again"

Nemo wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:17 pm

P.S. I hate Illinois Nazis

scone wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:18 pm

Decoupage Ill

Doc Holiday wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:19 pm

This is almost like June 28th, when some kids are shooting off fireworks and making a little noise in the streets at night -- WTF is going on with the reality of July 4th and the future of America? We need some reality, we need to see the FDIC kick ass and run these shitbag crooks out of town!

Rob Dawg wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:19 pm

Devo says: "Swelling, Itching Brain"

Dead Shtick wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:19 pm

What's the record so far for most failures in a day?

Mike in Long Island wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:19 pm (in reply to...)

Nemo wrote:

P.S. I hate Illinois Nazis

I'd like 4 fried chickens and a coke!

yagij wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:21 pm (in reply to...)

Nemo wrote:

...major Dupe-age

That's a first! Just don't get ill or annoisd about it.

NC Jim wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:20 pm

No way Cali can skate tonight.

Jim

bleh wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:20 pm

i live in dupage county! no biggie. the illusion goes forth!

there's a second and third bank to replace the first dupage bank!

gabyjan wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:20 pm

il is in cdt. wow this might be interesting.

Greg wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:21 pm

This is still only a tiny fraction of the insolvent banks.

Looks like the average bank in this group has losses of 30-60% of assets.

Badger boy wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:21 pm

Wow! at this rate shelia's gonna blow through the FDIC FY 10 budget by Turkey Day!

nova wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:21 pm

Devo...I wince.

Have we hit multiple billions yet? Damn, Shelia is at the mall and running hot with her credit card.

HollywoodHack wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:22 pm (in reply to...)

YouTube - The Smiths -- Sheila Take a Bow

poic wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:22 pm

Don't worry everyone. Bernanke has Sheila's back

http://www.meltingpotproject.com/.a/6a00e5501bb44a883301156f29efcd970c-800wi

yagij wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:22 pm (in reply to...)

nova wrote:

Shelia is at the mall and running hot with her credit card.

She must've had a bad week. She is performing some major retail therapy to improve her mood today.

RayOnTheFarm wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:23 pm (in reply to...)

and some dry white toast.

Nemo wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:24 pm

I think they must have held off on failure #100 until the video was ready.

That was probably take 37 or something.

sm_landlord wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:24 pm

AP coverage via Yahoo

Rob Dawg wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:25 pm

Nena says: "99 Luftabanks"

Doc Holiday wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:27 pm

Choice 1: Dailymotion - Sheena - een Films & TV video (the author has not previewed this... yet)

Choice 2: YouTube - Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Sheena Is A Punk Rocker (the author has reviewed this approves of the content)

I need a splellchecker for XMAS

scone wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:26 pm

Most of the peeps behind the counter, in my area, are young girls. Just out of high school, took the training course, no felonies on the record. Many of them are mommies, but I doubt they can afford the price of a house out here. And they probably know what's about to go down, if only because of the pervasive smell of pizza...

So how long before one of them makes off with the cash, 2 seconds before the Men in Black bust through the door?

CalculatedRisk wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:26 pm (in reply to...)

For this cycle, seven is the record - a couple of times.

Bank in the late '80s and early '90s there were some huge weeks. The record was 60, and there were 28 weeks with double digits including a 42, 48, and 51. Just monster weeks ...

best wishes

Jonathan wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:28 pm

Hey Sheila!

YouTube - AC/DC Wembley Stadium 26/6/09 You Shook Me All Night Long

HollywoodHack wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:28 pm (in reply to...)

We could easily have dozens of weeks with triple digits, if there was any political will to actually book losses and clean up the mess. Instead, Japan x1000.

Doc Holiday wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:29 pm (in reply to...)

CalculatedRisk wrote:

Just monster weeks ..

YouTube - bobby 'boris' pickett & the cryptkickers - monster mash

The author has not reviewed the content....

iceman wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:30 pm

Bank in the late '80s and early '90s there were some huge weeks. The record was 60, and there were 28 weeks with double digits including a 42, 48, and 51. Just monster weeks ...

The 60 week will be like Joe Dimaggio's consecutive hit streak. No one's going to touch it.

scone wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:32 pm

If you want '80's, you want Falco!

YouTube - Falco - Rock Me Amadeus

YouTube - Falco - Der Kommissar (German, Der Kommissar)

TJ and The Bear wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:32 pm (in reply to...)

iceman wrote:

No one's going to touch it.

Well no, not "officially".

josap wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:32 pm

If Sheila gets in a really bad mood she could close hundreds of banks on a Friday. Although she would need to hire allot more people.

Doc Holiday wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:33 pm

Choice #1: WikiAnswers - What colors are mood rings

Choice #2: LOOKING UP: Clouds come and go but stars shine on - Medfield, MA - Medfield Press

Choice #3: Astrology Rocks, If You’re a Scorpio | Bob Wire | Community Blogs | NewWest.Net

Is Das Sheila one of those?

Blackhalo wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:33 pm

It is wrong to dis DEVO! A great BFF tune.

Were through being cool
Eliminate the ninnies and the twits
Going to bang some heads
Going to beat some butts
Time to show those evil spuds whats what
If you live in a small town
You might meet a dozen or two
Young alien types who step out
And dare to declare
Spank the pank who try to drive you nuts
Time to clean some house
Be a man or a mouse
Waste those who make it tuff to get around
If you live in a big place
Many factions underground
Chase down mister hinky dink
So no trace can be found
Put the tape on erase
Rearrange a face
We always liked picasso anyway
Mash em

YouTube - Devo - Through being cool

TJ and The Bear wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:34 pm

Can't miss with Berlin...

YouTube - Berlin - The Metro

gabyjan wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:34 pm

nothing in mountain or pacific time zones, got 27 mins left. just eastern and central.

Nemo wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:36 pm (in reply to...)

If you want '80's, you want Falco!

I think Sheila's love shack is somewhere near Atlanta.

Rob Dawg wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:36 pm

Krazy Karl hits another homerun. Summary:

Prompt Corrective Action - a LAW, not a suggestion - is supposed to prevent this outcome. It is being wantonly and willfully ignored by the OTS, OCC, The FDIC and CONGRESS.

This level of loss is unconscionable and Sheila Bair, along with everyone involved in bank regulation at The Fed and the various Treasury departments (OTS, OCC and FDIC) must be held to account for their willful and intentional blindness.

"Mark to Myth" is not just a myth, it is a willful and intentional lie.

scone wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:37 pm

Germans and cars and synths, oh my!

YouTube - Kraftwerk - Autobahn

AlleyCat wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:37 pm

Nemo- Love Shack - what a great tune!

MiTurn wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:38 pm

Seven today and not even a full moon. Think of the cosmic possibilities.

threetorches wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:39 pm

Well, Karl is forgetting that the worst is behind us, the recovery is underway, and the assets will be performing as expected any time now.
Right?

Wait ...

I think a ate all the

Blackhalo wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:39 pm (in reply to...)

TJ and The Bear wrote:

YouTube - Berlin - The Metro

Have you heard the acoustic version? Pretty nifty.

http://www.last.fm/music/Berlin/_/The+Metro+(Acoustic)

pavel.chichikov wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:40 pm

I stopped reading Karl after the fifth or sixth prediction of financial Armageddon within days or weeks. if it does come, it will come, as it is said, like a thief in night.

HollywoodHack wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:40 pm (in reply to...)

the is actually eating the of the next generation

Yoringe wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:41 pm

ha, first comment since half a year and pigged (

well here it comes again OT..

BBC NEWS | Europe | Rich Germans demand higher taxes

Europe will survive if we stick like that...

scone wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:41 pm

Remember when we were worried about nuclear war?

YouTube - Kraftwerk - Radioactivity

TJ and The Bear wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:42 pm (in reply to...)

Blackhalo wrote:

Have you heard the acoustic version?

Thanks!

pavel.chichikov wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:43 pm

"Remember when we were worried about nuclear war?"

The weapons are still there, even if you have forgotten them.

picosec wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:47 pm

How in the world did FDIC/FSLIC have the staff to close >40 banks in one week?
EDIT for stoopid greater than sign.

(when I went to grade school, that sign didn't exist.)

Nemo wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:45 pm

No BFF thread music playlist would be complete without I Hate Banks.

volker the viking wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:45 pm

I still say sheila is hot!

Tonight has the makings of a Double Digit Doozie!

pavel.chichikov wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:45 pm

"How in the world did FDIC/FSLIC have the staff to close <40 banks in one week?"

You shall know them by their works.

nova wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:45 pm

What about Lynard Skynard? They count as an 80's band -- sort of. Working for MCA

Seven years of hard luck comin' down on me
from a motor boat, yes, up in Nashville, Tennessee.
I worked in every joint you can name, yes, every honky tonk.
They all come to see yankee slicker saying, baby, you're what I want.

Want you to sign the contract,
want you to sign the date.
Gonna give you lots of money
workin' for MCA.

Oh, nine thousand dollars just to sow to the wind.
Come to smile at the yankee slicker with a big old southern grin.
They're gonna take me out to California, gonna make me a super star.
Just pay me all my money, mister, maybe you won't get a star.

Want you to sign the contract,
want you to sign the date.
Gonna give you lots of money
workin' for MCA.

Slickers steal my money since I was seventeen,
if it ain't no pencil pusher then it got to be a honky tonk queen.
But I signed my contract, baby, and I want you people to know
that every penny I make, I gotta see where my money goes.

RueTheDay wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:46 pm

Iron Maiden, folks:

Seven deadly sins
Seven ways to win
Seven holy paths to hell
And your trip begins

Seven downward slopes
Seven bloodied hopes
Seven are your burning fires,
Seven your desires...

scone wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:47 pm

This has nothing to do with banks. Nothing at all.

YouTube - Sheila Chandra -- A Sailor's Life

nova wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:47 pm

I sense diverse economic and social backgrounds in these music selections...

Blackhalo wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:47 pm (in reply to...)

picosec wrote:

How in the world did FDIC/FSLIC have the staff to close <40 banks in one week?

It was not done by the FDIC...

YouTube - BILL MOYERS JOURNAL | William K. Black | PBS

Jonathan wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:50 pm

One for you nova! I still remember seeing this at my sitter after school. Gawd. 80's UK had an undercurrent of doom already...

YouTube - The Jam - Going Underground
YouTube - The Jam - Eaton Rifles - 1979

"Spraying sheep from my TV screen, didn't quite shout, didn't quite scream..."
"What chance do you have without a tie or a crest..."

That second song is bringing me to tears for some reason... bastards.

Mike in Long Island wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:48 pm

Did someone ask for some 80's music?

YouTube - The Vapors - Turning Japanese

The Vapors - I'm turning Japanese

josap wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:48 pm (in reply to...)

Yes Nova, that is one of the things that makes this site so interesting.
We don't always agree, we have different points of view. Great way to learn.

AlleyCat wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:49 pm

As an Alley Cat, how about Stray Cat Strut music?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoG62Wi8twUStray Cat Strut

Blackhalo wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:49 pm (in reply to...)

RueTheDay wrote:

Seven deadly sins

Is that anything like seven minute abs?

YouTube - 7 minute abs

unirealist wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:50 pm

A little over 300 million in losses for the FDIC today? What, did Sheila dig through the sofa cushions to find enough change to stay busy?

NorkaWest wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:50 pm

YouTube - Pretenders BACK ON THE CHAIN GANG

Miss Chrissie for the hard working FDIC staff

mock turtle wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:50 pm

i step out after lunch to get tonights pizza and beer...only gone acoupla hours

and what a you guys do...blow thru 7 banks

hay, stop hatin on the bankstas

well at least they were only small ones...the big boys and girls are still TBTF

btw several of thee major news outlets have talk about the balloon boy and naked people drinking coffee and how people should invest for the long term now while stocks are still well below 14k on the dow

but no mention of BFF

i do so love mainstream media

Comrade Misean is Dope wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:53 pm

YouTube - Black Sabbath - Trashed (2nd censored version *desc*)

Like banks balance sheets...Trashed.

Rob Dawg wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:53 pm (in reply to...)

Mike in Long Island wrote:

The Vapors - I'm turning Japanese

Mien Gott! I haf creatid a monster!

My punishment vil be to listen to ze Michael Jackson Discography.
(At least until I find my Kraftwerk discs.)

TJ and The Bear wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:54 pm (in reply to...)

nova,

How about this one?

YouTube - world destruction

HollywoodHack wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:54 pm (in reply to...)

pleasantly surprised when Sopranos used that one for an intro and credits in one of their later seasons

josap wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:55 pm

Maybe Sheila figures if the Fed can bail out everyone - she is part of everyone.
They can bail FDIC out next, FDIC is totally TBTF.

Blackhalo wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:55 pm (in reply to...)

Comrade Misean is Dope wrote:

Like banks balance sheets...Trashed.

That does not LOOK like Ozzy...

asi9 wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:55 pm

Not quite a bank, but....

First Delta Federal Credit Union Placed Into Conservatorship

TJ and The Bear wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:56 pm (in reply to...)

Yeah, that one (nicely) surprised the hell out of me, too.

Mike in Long Island wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:56 pm (in reply to...)

Rob Dawg wrote:

My punishment vil be to listen to ze Michael Jackson Discography.

No worse

You get
YouTube - Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives Me Crazy (Original Music)

This is for Timmay and Ben

threetorches wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:56 pm

TEOTWAWKI

YouTube - R.E.M. - It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I...

Yoringe wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:56 pm

my 2 cents for Music

YouTube - Type O Negative-Unsuccessfully Coping with the Natural Beauty of Infidelity

1991, close 80s..

scone wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:57 pm

Scotland meets India, and the IndoEuropean language scholars are justified:

YouTube - Sheila Chandra: Lament of McCrimmon/Song of the Banshee

sm_landlord wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:58 pm

OK, here a nice one:
YouTube - Battle Lines - Steve Hackett

TJ and The Bear wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:59 pm (in reply to...)

I was wondering when you'd show up, since you probably produced some of these.

Rob Dawg wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:00 pm (in reply to...)

Mike in Long Island wrote:

Rob Dawg wrote:
My punishment vil be to listen to ze Michael Jackson Discography.
No worse You get
YouTube - Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives Me Crazy (Original Music)
This is for Timmay and Ben

Way too late:
Rob Dawg (homepage, profile) wrote (in reply to...) on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 4:32 pm
...
On a separate matter Nemo also wrote:
...
03. Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives Me Crazy (1989) 3:36
Sound track of the FDIC.

HollywoodHack wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:00 pm (in reply to...)

is that an ebow in the intro?

nova wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:00 pm

Very cool music. Thanks tj and Jonathan.

Comrade Misean is Dope wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:01 pm

"That does not LOOK like Ozzy... "

Twas Ian Gillan...ok fine...

YouTube - Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (Promo Clip)

scone wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:02 pm

Well, after the Celtic spiritual buzz, time to get back to the Harshing of the Banksters:

YouTube -

sm_landlord wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:03 pm (in reply to...)

"is that an ebow in the intro? "

I don't think so. Hackett can do that without mechanical aids.

Oops, gotta go. Someone just arrived in meatspace. L8rz.

Basel Too wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:04 pm

anyone think that FDIC is making a statement by closing 7+ banks on one Friday?

nova wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:05 pm

alert

Fresh doom from my ongoing serial novel of the destruction of America after an economic collapse and other bad stuff.

sample

"Yeah." I replied. He liked that "Good. We will need them." That did not pass unnoticed by Night or I. "The USA is still 50 states I think. At least on paper. I doubt if Alaska is, except in name only. Hawaii is still probably. The navy will make sure of that. We got a couple civil wars going on. That's probably why the troop presence is so light here. Lets see..." He was staring off in the distance, probably checking his mental map. We got the Burner/Mex v. the Feds in the Southwest. We got the Alabama Militia trying to ride again down south. Oh yeah, Montana declared their independence. Come to think of it I think Utah is saying they are 'neutral' for now."

more? American Apocalypse

Mike in Long Island wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:05 pm (in reply to...)

Rob Dawg wrote:

Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives Me Crazy (1989) 3:36
Sound track of the FDIC.

Not all of us have a full time job that consists of reading and posting on hoodcoodanode

Kauai_Kahuna wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:05 pm

Wow, over a six pack today, once the flood starts it just keeps coming.

HollywoodHack wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:05 pm (in reply to...)

hmmm... i still think ebow - looks like something is tucked into his hand @ 0:24, over the neck pickup where you use one... even the most sustainy Gibson has trouble producing THAT much sustain.

adornosghost wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:06 pm (in reply to...)

HollywoodHack wrote:

YouTube - The Smiths -- Sheila Take a Bow

Good choice.

ztexas wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:06 pm (in reply to...)

mock turtle wrote:

btw several of thee major news outlets have talk about the balloon boy and naked people drinking coffee and how people should invest for the long term now while stocks are still well below 14k on the dow

Katie Couric said some banks failed... I thought... wow, BFF is on CBS nightly news! And she said "used home sales" were up in September. I laughed out loud. Isn't it supposed to be "existing home sales"? Who would want a "used home"? That's like a used car.

Rajesh wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:07 pm (in reply to...)

Basel Too wrote:

anyone think that FDIC is making a statement by closing 7+ banks on one Friday?

The statement is "Help Me."

pavel.chichikov wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:07 pm

What a parcel of rogues in a nation.

Mike in Long Island wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:07 pm

Way OT - flashing back to music from long ago. Does anyone believe a song like this

YouTube - PARIS - Bush Killa

wouldn't result in a short stay in Gitmo these days?

josap wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:08 pm

katie always buys new. Used is so yuky.

Yoringe wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:09 pm

my Sheila should train with them a bit to impress the bankers

YouTube - All Black's Haka (Good quality)

Rajesh wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:09 pm (in reply to...)

ztexas wrote:

And she said "used home sales"

These homes were used to defraud the government.

TJ and The Bear wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:09 pm (in reply to...)

Mike in Long Island wrote:

Not all of us have a full time job that consists of reading and posting on hoodcoodanode

We would if we could figure out how to do it and get paid.

Comrade Misean is Dope wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:09 pm

"Who would want a "used home"? That's like a used car. "

In my line of business we shun the word used. We call them "previously loved." Our "previously loved" line includes Trojans, French Ticklers and other assorted protection.

MommyKnows wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:10 pm

I'll throw in. Seems apropos enough:

YouTube - Men at work: Land down under!!!! (One of their best songs!!)

Rob Dawg wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:10 pm

Don't pay the FDICman

For the record I'm butt glued to the command chair waiting for the friendly "ding" that tells me the multiterrabytes are safe. At least I've got 80k songs and SyFy Channel.

[Gawd I'm such a pathetic figure.]

scone wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:11 pm

And this one goes out to our friends in Canuckistan:

YouTube - Monty Python- I'm a lumberjack THE BEST VERSION by Eric Idle

Yoringe wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:11 pm (in reply to...)

Down Under Song

makes fun listening on a 3 day nulabor road ride

TJ and The Bear wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:11 pm (in reply to...)

I'll see you and raise you:

YouTube - Big Country - In A Big Country: Video

Jonathan wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:12 pm

"Help! I'm being oppressed!"

HollywoodHack wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:13 pm (in reply to...)

thank you, sir. that band was definitely much, much more than the sum of its parts.

nova wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:14 pm

K. D. Laing is a superstar from Kanada. She is hot if you are a femme and play a lot of softball.

scone wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:13 pm

Now you see the violence inherent in the system!

YouTube - HELP HELP I'M BEING REPRESSED

Terry wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:16 pm (in reply to...)

picosec wrote:

How in the world did FDIC/FSLIC have the staff to close >40 banks in one week?

Most of them were single branch banks - the laws back then severly restricted branching outside a city or county, so a banking company that failed may have had 10-15 separate bank charters - one for each location. Now, with multi state branching you might have one bank fail that has 10 or more branches. It really is not an apples to apples comparison

bleh wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:14 pm

for the repressed!

YouTube - Supertramp - It's Raining Again

Black Star Ranch wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:14 pm

............geeze............Is this also youtube Friday?.........I go away to do chores and you'all are drunk in the barn when I get back........and the pathetic part is it's the 80's...........

SNAFU wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:14 pm

OT---

Affidavit: Mom told deputies balloon saga was hoax

Go Sheila! Now for something entirely different...

Yahoo! 404 - Page Not Found

DENVER – The mother of the 6-year-old boy once feared missing inside a runaway helium balloon admitted the whole saga was a hoax, according to court documents released Friday.

Mayumi Heene told sheriff's deputies that she and her husband Richard "knew all along that Falcon was hiding in the residence" in Fort Collins, according to an affidavit used to get a search warrant for the home.

She allegedly told investigators the incident was a hoax meant to make them more marketable to the media.

"Mayumi described that she and Richard Heene devised this hoax approximately two weeks earlier.... She and Richard had instructed their three children to lie to authorities as well as the media regarding this hoax," the affidavit said.

AlleyCat wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:14 pm

*anyone think that FDIC is making a statement by closing 7+ banks on one Friday? *

No, but the immediate release of Sheila's video makes a statement.

Terry wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:14 pm (in reply to...)

asi9 wrote:

First Delta Federal Credit Union Placed Into Conservatorship
Do CUs count in the BFF poll (if so, I would count them as 1/4 of a bank)

TJ and The Bear wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:15 pm (in reply to...)

Yeah, but...

YouTube - Garbage - Only happy when it rains

Rufus the doofus wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:16 pm

Probably an FAQ: did FFDIC write a farewell post?

gabyjan wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:16 pm (in reply to...)

mommyknows
thanks i agree it is one of their best

scone wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:16 pm

That video brings back dreary memories of endless anarcho-syndicalist meetings. Why is the left so boring?

Blackwaterwannabe wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:17 pm

Nova-fellow va dude, you hear about Franklin loosing International paper? It's going to kill that county.

nova wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:17 pm

Why is the left so boring?

All true believers are.

Yoringe wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:18 pm

so moving to the 90s now with you tube music???

Comrade Misean is Dope wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:18 pm

Quite right nova,

YouTube - "He's not the Messiah"

Deflationary Jane wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:18 pm (in reply to...)

Garbage and a nice Rhone blend +1

nova wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:18 pm

blackwater,

Yeah, weren't they telling the county their long term plans 2 days earlier? Got a packing plant closing also I think

Yoringe wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:19 pm

OT question: does the add thing scan your Harddrive??

ResistanceIsFeudal wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:19 pm

Affadavit: Bernanke told economists speculative bubble was a hoax...

Mike in Long Island wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:19 pm (in reply to...)

TJ and The Bear wrote:

I'll see you and raise you:
YouTube - Big Country - In A Big Country: Video

I'll see your raise and raise you

Bubble Dance

Rufus the doofus wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:20 pm

As of 8:19 central, Bank Failures was the "top story" on the "Reuters" section of the NYTimes web site. It also says Sen Reid wants to extend the homebuyer credit.

Yankee wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:20 pm

Q:
Anyone here think their job is rock solid?

Jonathan wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:24 pm

There's only one reaction to that Big Country video: "God, what a big ponce!" (Apology to anyone offendi)

Great song though. Used to listen to their greatest hits on my walk up to my first jawb.

Hee, ponce is a better word!!!

Terry wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:21 pm (in reply to...)

Yoringe wrote:

OT question: does the add thing scan your Harddrive??

Do you mean the ad server? Not supposed to - just scans the words we type and then selects "appropriate" ads.

gabyjan wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:21 pm (in reply to...)

think its smithfield.thats closing, saw it someplace,cant remember where.

Rob Dawg wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:22 pm (in reply to...)

Black Star Ranch wrote:

and the pathetic part is it's the 80's...........

What part of all these bank closings isn't the 80's?

Jeez, it took somebody this long to get my joke?

Rajesh wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:22 pm

ElectroLux is closing two plants in Iowa by 2011. Nine hundred jobs being shifted to Mexico due to the undervalued Yuan.

central_scrutinizer wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:22 pm

Wow, I can really sense the animal spirits coming out here tonight. Just like the good old days.

BTW, anyone at the FDIC print up some "Bank Failures 100" caps? I bet Sheila would look cute in one.

Terry wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:24 pm

Anyone here think their job is rock solid?

While I work for a law firm, I am self employed - unless I fire myself or all my clients get a visit from Sheila, I should be o.k.

Yoringe wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:22 pm (in reply to...)

why do i have a add for Online games then?? never wrote but have games on pc???

ResistanceIsFeudal wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:23 pm

An oldie (from my temporal perspective) but goodie
YouTube - Midnight Oil - Beds are Burning

nova wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:23 pm

Do you mean the ad server? Not supposed to - just scans the words we type and then selects "appropriate" ads.

It would have to. Otherwise we would be flooded with guns, gold, and porn.

Deflationary Jane wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:23 pm (in reply to...)

points to the dow futures

I don't think we're alone >; )

Kauai_Kahuna wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:23 pm

Yankee -
Q:

Anyone here think their job is rock solid?

Hey, I have been trying to get fired for around 8 years now. So maybe this will be the year!!

Terry wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:24 pm (in reply to...)

Yoringe wrote:

why do i have a add for Online games then?? never wrote but have games on pc???

Someone else in the thread may have mentioned something - a few weeks back when a bank in Pueblo failed we all had a hotel ad for Pueblo.

Yoringe wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:25 pm

i even got the add before i wrote anything.. i am too ???

Nemo wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:26 pm

I wonder if I can get one of these on eBay.

gabyjan wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:26 pm

YouTube - AC/DC - Thunderstruck

Yoringe wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:26 pm

btw in case you missed it.. a NOVEL idea from germany..

BBC NEWS | Europe | Rich Germans demand higher taxes

Rajesh wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:27 pm (in reply to...)

Nemo wrote:

I wonder if I can get one of these on eBay.

I'd rather have a Dow 5000 hat, but only if I could get it for half price.

Blackhalo wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:30 pm (in reply to...)

Rob Dawg wrote:

Jeez, it took somebody this long to get my joke?

It seemed pretty clear to me. History echos...

YouTube - Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear The Reaper
YouTube - Blue Oyster Cult - Burnin for you

josap wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:28 pm

My job is solid, unless all my clients fire me all at once.

TJ and The Bear wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:28 pm (in reply to...)

Rob Dawg wrote:

Jeez, it took somebody this long to get my joke?

YouTube - Back in Time - Back to the Future Music Video

p.s.: Acknowledging you already referenced "Power of Love".

gabyjan wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:28 pm

i got stealthstocks ad and a cap one

Mike in Long Island wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:29 pm (in reply to...)

Nemo wrote:

I wonder if I can get one of these on eBay.

No need go right to the source

https://www.stweed-nyse.com/

Terry wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:29 pm

Back to the question on the highest number of bank failures in a day - Colonial had over 300 branches, all under one charter. Back in the 80's they would have had a few hundred charters due to branch restrictions. If we counted them that way, we would probably be close to 1,000 failures this year.

Rob Dawg wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:29 pm

Maybe we can send the on air talking heads at CNBC caps with little LED counters that flash BFFs.

Basel Too wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:30 pm

points to the dow futures

IIRC, futures don't reflect today's close until Sunday night (or something to that effect).

Nemo wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:30 pm (in reply to...)

Mike in Long Island --

OK that's pretty funny.

nova wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:30 pm

dancing revolutionary ukranian anarchist
dancing revolutionary ukranian anarchist
dancing revolutionary ukranian anarchist
dancing revolutionary ukranian anarchist
dancing revolutionary ukranian anarchist
dancing revolutionary ukranian anarchist

El Hombre wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:30 pm

Oh, I'll play

Youtube - Siouxsie & The Banshees - Cities In Dust

Yankee wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:31 pm

Kahuna: lol. Isn't that the way?

Thread music: Smiths rule... Men at Work- meh.

But how about this one?

YouTube - The English Beat - Twist And Crawl

josap wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:31 pm

I have ads for Gamer sites. That is weird, never play on line games.

The Mortgage Pig wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:32 pm

Problem Bank List (Unofficial) Oct 23, 2009

bleh wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:32 pm (in reply to...)

ok but...

YouTube - Paramore - When It Rains (Lyrics)

but i guess its because...

YouTube -

Terry wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:32 pm (in reply to...)

Rob Dawg wrote:

Maybe we can send the on air talking heads at CNBC caps with little LED counters that flash BFFs.

Saw 15 minutes ago Suzie Orman (sp) was talking up defaulting on your credit cards to get even with the banks

Doc Holiday wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:38 pm

Re: "No BFF thread music playlist would be complete without"

WTF about: YouTube - Klaatu - Calling Occupants Nice intro

scone wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:45 pm

Even the non-true believers are boring. Trust me, this could be a Unitarian service:

YouTube -

Deflationary Jane wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:46 pm (in reply to...)

buzz kill >; )

Deflationary Jane wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 5:48 pm (in reply to...)

Splitter!
YouTube - The People's Front

JLS wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 6:08 pm

Has anyone noticed that not only are there 7 failures, but not one of them was part of a "loss sharing agreement" with another bank? All in for the FDIC! Have we run out of banks who have the ability to take over the assets of these losers or is it that there are no more banks willing to do it? And Hillcrest? That should put Denninger in the hospital with a fit of apoplexy. What was it running on, fumes? If this is an indication of how far the FDIC will let banks go, we are in a world of hurt.

Smart Places wrote on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 11:36 pm

It seems like the rate of bank takeovers is accelerating at a great rate. 7 times 52 is 364. In the last 42 weeks we have had 99. I am surprised that Calculated Risks does not have a trend chart for this issue. It seems that banks are failing currently at almost 3 times the weekly average. Is the FDIC finally weeding out the smaller regional banks now?

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