Thursday, September 25, 2008

What's in Your Wallet?


Sept. 25 (Bloomberg) -- JPMorgan Chase & Co., the third- biggest U.S. bank by assets, agreed to pay $1.9 billion for the deposits of Washington Mutual Inc. after the thrift was seized by regulators in the biggest bank failure in U.S. history.

The U.S. government closed Seattle-based Washington Mutual amid customer withdrawals of $16.7 billion since Sept. 15, the Office of Thrift Supervision said in a statement. WaMu had ``insufficient liquidity'' and was in an ``unsound'' condition, the OTS said.
(via Atrios:Eated and Pooped)

Seriously, WAMU was so reckless,... How reckless were they?

so reckless, they gave me a credit card....

I wonder if I still have to make my monthly payment? If they have been seized by the FED, don't I own a share?, and can't I work out some sort of payment plan???

3 comments:

  1. Am I the only person here who thinks that talk of injecting liquidity into assets sounds kinda dirty?

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  2. Am I the only person here who thinks that the House Republicans need a brief tutorial on how the captalist system functions, i.e., with the always implicit, sometimes explicit support of the State?

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  3. And you think the dunderheads in the House minority caucus would listen to you, Marx-boy? You obviously use big words and probably eat arugala. Why do you hate America?

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