IndyMac Bank fails !

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UPDATED: Saturday, July 26, 2008 16:22
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RUE

Saturday, July 12, 2008 1:22 AM

Made you look, didn't I ?

But this time it's for real:

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-indymac12-2008jul12,0,6071779.st
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The Pasadena-based thrift's failure is second in size only to the 1984 failure of Continental Illinois Bank.
By Kathy M. Kristof and Andrea Chang, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
4:48 PM PDT, July 11, 2008
The federal government took control of Pasadena-based IndyMac Bank today, in what regulators called the second-largest bank failure in U.S. history.

The Office of Thrift Supervision in Washington, the chief regulator of IndyMac, said it transferred control of the $32-billion bank to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

Branches will be closed over the weekend, but the FDIC will reopen the bank Monday as IndyMac Federal Bank, the OTS said.

Regulators said depositors would have no access to banking services online and by telephone this weekend, but could continue to use ATMs, debit cards and checks. Online banking and phone banking services are to resume operations Monday.

Federal authorities said based on a preliminary analysis, the takeover of IndyMac would cost the FDIC between $4 billion and $8 billion.

IndyMac's failure had been widely expected in recent days, as regulators said it was not well-capitalized. Its stock has plummeted to mere pennies a share and some nervous depositors have been pulling their funds. The bank has been reeling from losses on defaulted mortgages made at the height of the housing boom.

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KWICKO

Saturday, July 12, 2008 2:32 AM

I've got a bad feeling about this...

SIGNYM

Saturday, July 12, 2008 2:38 AM

People seem to think that the Great Depression happened all at once. That every thing was fine until the stock market crash caught everyone unawares. But the Great Depression really started in some countries as early as 1928. In the USA farm foreclosures increased over a year before the crash. Herbert Hoover thought the stock market represented a bubble, an orgy of speculation. Knowledgeable people argued on both sides of the question even after the market had tanked. And even after that, the economy didn't crash all at once. Unemployment staggered down.

Just because it's happening in slow-mo doesn't mean its gonna be small.

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JAYNEZTOWN

Sunday, July 13, 2008 4:44 PM

this is getting really ugly

SIGNYM

Sunday, July 13, 2008 5:52 PM

I think we'll be extremely fortunate if we manage to miss a depression. We'll know whether the current circumstances are going to snowball into something horrific in the next six - eight months or so.

I didn't adopt my signature line for nothing....

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CHRISISALL

Wednesday, July 16, 2008 6:58 PM

We've been tellin' them for a while, haven't we?

Toldyaso Chrisisall

HERO

Wednesday, July 16, 2008 7:05 PM

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Originally posted by SignyM:
I think we'll be extremely fortunate if we manage to miss a depression. We'll know whether the current circumstances are going to snowball into something horrific in the next six - eight months or so.

Please, this is only the worst economy in 26 years. That means that 27 years ago...it was worse. Since that was 1981, it needs to get worse before its REALLY bad since we know it was FAR worse in the mid to late 1970's and we are nowhere near that level of economic turmoil.

Unemployment remains a third of what it was then. Back then a rate of 10% was considered good for a mortgage...my parents first house was financed at 14%.

This is merely a period of transition. Don't go all panic button folks...your scaring the women.

I note for the record that while the President has some manner of control of the economy...since 1994 the real economic stimulas (and lack thereof) has come from Republican control of Congress (and lack thereof).

H

CHRISISALL

Wednesday, July 16, 2008 7:12 PM

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Originally posted by Hero:

Please, this is only the worst economy in 26 years.

You forgot the 'so far'.

My guess- no depression, but a grand recession leading to an entirely different economy with wages across the board being slashed and middle management jobs disappearing.

Prognosticative demon Chrisisall

JONGSSTRAW

Wednesday, July 16, 2008 7:43 PM

Does anybody think that any other banks are going to fail?

Did this bank really "fail", or did Senator Shumer's memo leak that caused $1.3 billion to be withdrawn actually seal its' fate?

SIGNYM

Wednesday, July 16, 2008 8:23 PM

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Please, this is only the worst economy in 26 years.

What statistic are you using? If you're looking at GNP, we're doing OK. If you're looking at the "misery index"... the percent of unemployment and the percent of inflation added together... not too bad. (except reporting changes make it defficult to compare). But if you're looking at private indebtedness, the Federal deficit, balance of trade and the value of the dollar, we're in historic territory. Same with the rich-poor spread.

The bank problem is more widespread and complicated than previous years, since they sold mortgage-based "structured invproducts" to other banks and financial institutions around the world. So diverse institutions are either going belly-up (IndyMac, Countrywide, Bear Stearns) and other institutions like thrifts (WAMU) and investment banks (UBS, Lehman Bros) are getting hit with writedowns.

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CHRISISALL

Wednesday, July 16, 2008 8:30 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
Does anybody think that any other banks are going to fail?

Maybe one or two more...wait- that's ALL of them, right?

"You always hear people yapping on how it was all different before the pulse. Land of milk and honey blah, blah, blah, blah with plenty of food and jobs and things actually worked. I was too young to remember, so, whatever... The thing I don't get is why they call it a depression. I mean, everybody's broke...but they aren't really all that depressed. Life goes on."

Maxisall

SIGNYM

Wednesday, July 16, 2008 10:25 PM

CHRIS- NICE QUOTE!

BTW, the only other time I thought the dollar was in deep shit was in 1981. Not sure if you remember, but the oil crisis of 1973 caused a huge concentration of dollars in Saudi, UAE, and Kuwaiti banks ("petro-dollars"). Those dollars got recycled into shaky loans to South and Central American governments.

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By 1981 and 1982 the U.S. crisis became an international crisis with a number of foreign countries unable to make interest and principal payment on their debt. Mexico, Argentina, Venezuela, and some 40 smaller Latin-American and African countries were forced to reschedule their foreign indebtedness to governments and banks.

Unless the lenders accepted the resecheduling, their loans... and their dollars... would have been toast. That's when I first heard the saying If you owe the bank $1000 they own you, if you owe them $1,000,000 you own them" .

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CHRISISALL

Thursday, July 17, 2008 7:12 PM

In 1981 I wasn't aware of much trouble...too into girl related angst. I remember the gas lines in the late seventies, and wondering when the crude would run out completely though. In the eighties I remember thinking we were all riding on some economic fantasy that would eventually fold in on itself.
Well here it is.

But life WILL go onisall

RIVERLOVE

Saturday, July 19, 2008 9:52 AM

The answer to the energy crisis is to convert to human and animal waste. They're two stable (most of the time) re-usable byproducts that have an endless supply. The world is a big shithole anyhow, so why not exploit the reality.

SIGNYM

Saturday, July 26, 2008 4:22 PM

Two more banks, with 28 branches, fail

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The 28 branches of 1st National Bank of Nevada and First Heritage Bank, operating in Nevada, Arizona and California, were closed Friday by federal regulators

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