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Saturday, July 12, 2008
Anyone Up for Dominoes?
If this news doesn't make your throat go a little dry, you've maybe drunk more of the George-Bush-Virginia-Foxx economic Kool-Aid than is necessarily good for you. "The federal government took control of Pasadena-based IndyMac Bank on Friday in what regulators called the second-largest bank failure in U.S. history."
Yep, "defaulted mortgages" cited as the prime cause.
T-Men also are standing by this weekend to take over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which together hold almost half of the nation's mortgage debt.
IndyMac is the fifth FDIC-insured failure of the year. No one expects it to be the last.
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) blamed (in part) Bush administration regulators for allowing IndyMac to run out of control; Bushies and IndyMac executives blamed Schumer for prompting a run on the bank. It's always nice to have someone else to blame.
Labels: bank failures, Bush economy, Charles Schumer, Virginia Foxx
