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Small Banks Failing As Big Banks Grow Stronger

nytimes.com | ERIC DASH | Posted 10.10.2009 | Business

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A year after Washington rescued the banks considered too big to fail, the ones deemed too small to save are approaching a grim milestone: the 100th ba...

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Small Bank Bailouts Under Consideration

AP | DANIEL WAGNER | Posted 09.25.2009 | Business

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WASHINGTON — Treasury officials and regulators are weighing a fresh round of bailouts for banks that were deemed too risky to qualify for earlie...

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FDIC: U.S. 'Problem' Banks Rise to 305

bloomberg.com | Margaret Chadbourn and Alison Vekshin | Posted 06.27.2009 | Business

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May 27 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. "problem" banks climbed 21 percent to the highest total in 15 years in the first quarter, and provisions set aside for loan...

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Private Equity Firms Look To Take Over Banks

New York Times | ERIC LIPTON | Posted 06.05.2009 | Business

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CAINSVILLE, Mo. -- No one seems to want to own a business in this dusty, windswept corner of rural America, population 370, with its crumbling sidewal...

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The US has Over 6,000 Small Banks: The Government Should Use Them

Saskia Sassen | Posted 04.23.2009 | Business

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Small banks often help small firms and lower income households, partly because they know the local conditions and can gauge the soundness of borrowers in a local context

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Small Banks Want Bailout Money

CNN | David Ellis | Posted 01.08.2009 | Business

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The Treasury Department better order some new checkbooks. So far, the Treasury Department has invested $161.5 billion in 52 companies as of last week...

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Paulson Plan Blasted By Small Banks, State Officials

Wall Street Journal | DAMIAN PALETTA and ELIZABETH WILLIAMSON | Posted 04.09.2008 | Business

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Small banks, state officials and others began an assault on the Bush administration's sweeping plan to overhaul the nation's financial regulatory syst...

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