bank failures

Brussels is firmly against, fearing that it would trigger currency instability, bank failures and competitive devaluations across the EU.

A wave of bank failures beginning in the fall of 1930 dashed those hopes and plunged the U. S. into three more years of contraction.

Some bank failures, no doubt, are also to be expected.

They lived through the Great Depression and lost money in bank failures. So they were not about to trust a bank.

As it turned out, the Fed was dead wrong: the wave of small-bank failures was a catastrophe for the wider economy.

caused widespread foreclosures, bank failures, unemployment, and a slump in agriculture and manufacturing.

Conversely, a recovering economy means fewer bank failures, so government balance-sheets are less likely to be strained by bail-outs.

Bank failures have been at the heart of most financial crises.

Millions of Americans lost their life savings in the bank failures.

A series of Viennese bank failures resulted, causing a contraction of the money available for business lending.

The growing bank failures have sapped billions of dollars out of the deposit insurance fund.

With 198 bank failures since 2007, some in Congress are still skeptical about whether the Fed is up to the task.

It has also recognised that the objective of regulation is not to prevent bank failures.

The news fanned fears that the worst isn't over for the American banking system, and some investors are worried about bank failures.

But the current downturn in global stock markets and string of bank failures could be a blessing in disguise for Nomura.

The number of bank failures during the same years in Canada, on the other hand, which had no unit-banking laws, was zero.

Yet bank failures are like buses: you do not see one for hours and then a fleet arrives together.

But the history of bank failures suggests that Japan's slump was not only the result of policy errors.

It would also provide society with an extra cushion against bank failures.

After Lehman Brothers' chaotic bankruptcy it was judged that big bank failures were too destabilising to tolerate.

But European bank failures would have ripple effects across the Atlantic.

These bank failures are a symptom of deeper problems: arguably, no other state has suffered as badly from banks gone wild.

Beneath these headline stories of individual bank failures, there are growing signs of a deeper malaise for western Europe.

Bank failures snowballed as desperate bankers called in loans which the borrowers did not have time or money to repay.

a disaster of epic proportions, akin to the Depression wrought by the chain-reaction bank failures in the early 1930s.

Obama, confronted by bank failures and auto-industry collapse, chose higher government spending, with tax cuts playing a smaller role.

Japan has finally emerged from 15 years of stagnation and bank failures.

There is a bulk academic literature that links liberalisation of markets with an increase in bank failures.

Incidence of bank failures differs across OECD countries and this observation may reflect differences in the tolerated risk level.

The crisis among small banks may not threaten the system in the same way as big-bank failures.

The number of US bank failures this year has topped more than 100 after US federal regulators shut down a trio of small Florida banks.

That, in turn, merely drove down prices further, leading to more credit rationing, bankruptcies , and bank failures.

This caused firms' foreign-currency debts to swell in local terms, resulting in widespread bankruptcies and bank failures.

Instead, the sense of panic has escalated in the past few weeks, creating a fresh wave of bank failures.

Amid a wave of bank failures globally, many other governments have in recent weeks expanded their guarantees on bank deposits.

But it is not just earnings that are at stake -- bank failures could surge in the coming quarters.

Income disparities between rich and poor widened as government regulations eased and bank failures rose.

By reducing the stake that banks have in their own long-term survival it may make bank failures more likely.

If we get more bank failures, we have the possibility of seeing more of these pictures of people standing in line to pull their money out.

The bigger risk lies with a string of smaller bank failures, mostly caused by tumbling property values.

"There probably will be some bank failures, " Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress in February.

It also has a lot more raw material to work with, as the pace of bank failures accelerates (see chart).

There are bank failures and a couple of insurance companies topple over.

The EU has kept it alive, averting, for now, default by Greece and Ireland, and the risk of another round of bank failures.

Mr James argues that the events most closely related to the present crisis may be the huge bank failures in Austria and Germany in 1931.

He believed bank failures turned the crash of 1929 into the Great Depression.

They certainly deserved it. But big bank failures often cause terrible damage.

The improved resilience may be seen in fewer bank failures and more consistent credit provision.

These factors point to a sharp rise in bank failures.

The effect of the tests is also to emphasise how little tolerance policymakers still have for bank failures.

California and Illinois also have seen large numbers of bank failures.

Bank failures ceased -- while in the current crisis our banks are still a mess.

That should minimise the cost to taxpayers of future bank failures.

The FDIC has said it expects the total bill for bank failures to reach $100 billion for the period of 2009 through 2013.

But steep falls in the value of Italian or Spanish government debt risk a wave of bank failures.

Bank failures, almost unheard of in recent years, are ticking up.

Certainly, surgery may result in bank failures.

Fear of bank failures led people to withdraw their money, leading to more failures.

In February another rash of bank failures broke out.

Waves of bank failures also often made things worse.

We believe there is no convincing answer; we should instead find ways to manage the systemic risk of bank failures.

The trickle of retail-bank failures we saw in 2008 will become a flood.

And Georgia leads the nation in bank failures.

Great numbers of people were out of work. The federal government itself lost nine million dollars because of bank failures.

In July alone, there have been 19 bank failures.

That leads to increasing bank failures and the government's bailout expenditure.

Britain is also an example of how heterogeneous bank failures were.

The good news is that bank failures are highly unlikely, and the threat of systemic risk even more so.

There were 140 bank failures in 2009, costing the insurance fund about $36 billion.

The FDIC also had $28. 5bn set aside for future bank failures.

In 2008 dollar-euro was wildly volatile as bank failures in USA and UK spread and by April 2008 dollar fell to 1. 60 to euro.

If a bank in the operational problems, but also will ultimately trigger bank failures, embarrass and unthinkableconsequences.

The federal fund that covers bank failures now stands at 7. 5 billion dollars, 7. 5.

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