2009-09-22market-ticker.org

"Senior regulators say they are seriously considering a plan to have the nation’s healthy banks lend billions of dollars to rescue the insurance fund that protects bank depositors. That would enable the fund, which is rapidly running out of money because of a wave of bank failures, to continue to rescue the sickest banks. The plan, strongly supported by bankers and their lobbyists, would be a major reversal of fortune. Of course it would. Writing insurance on yourself is a highly-lucrative business, especially when you can charge interest to the supposed insurer who you are supporting! Insurance is supposed to work the other way around"



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