Does anyone know if Wachovia is on the ropes as well? would it be a good idea to pull all my savings out of there?
All I have seen on Wachovia has been rumors and speculation. It doesn't sound good, but I can't verify. Sorry I can't help you more than that.
Some of you were saying that JPM bought Wamu for an undisclosed sum. Bloomberg is now saying that JPM bought it for 1.9B. Why do I get the feeling they got a little help with that somehow?
Am I the only one, or does this seem surreal? I remember what it was like while 9/11 was going on; it just seemed ... well, surreal. That's kinda how I feel now.
Am I the only one, or does this seem surreal? I remember what it was like while 9/11 was going on; it just seemed ... well, surreal. That's kinda how I feel now.
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According to a Yahoo article I read a bit ago, JPMorgan only bought Wamu's deposit accounts and assets, nothing else. All the loans, credit cards, MORTGAGES, etc. are still on Wamu's books so who knows what will happen there.
Ok, I hate to ask this, but can someone please give me the crashing economy for dummies on this? I don't know squat about diposits, FDIC, or any of this.
OMGz0rz!!!!! RUN ON TEH BANKS NOW FOR YOUR MONIEZ GOGOGOGOGO!!!
No, but seriously, run your bank before you lose your money. This is the real deal. Your family come before some other poor sap depositor at your bank. The trick to surviving bank runs is to be one of the first to panic.Remember that.
The safest bets are looking like the local little banks that ALL live WITHIN their MEANS! Not over extending like the GREED WHORES like GOLDMAN SACHS.
The safest bets are looking like the local little banks that ALL live WITHIN their MEANS! Not over extending like the GREED WHORES like GOLDMAN SACHS.
Did you know GOLDMAN SACHS was called to the SEC to account for selling and then shorting their own toxic funds. LAST YEAR! Manipulating the market and investments and Nothing is done to them, but it shows the top 2 investment houses have IMMUNITY to do as they wish on Wall St.
They have the Politicans in their back pocket. Sheila Blair pulled another CIRCUS STUNT by PANICKING and Siezing WaMu's GOOD Assets and turning them over to their partners in CRIME on Wall St.
The Corruption and Collusion go FAR & DEEP between banks and government.
yea, and in a systemic failure i'm sure all the small banks will go belly up. You'd have better chances tryin' to pick which 'big one' is anointed to never fail...
just deposit your cash in Mattress Savings & Loan, or Shovel Securities & Trust. It's not FDIC insured, but they have 100% reserve ratios so they'll always have your money no matter what! The FDIC is irrelevant anyway as it could never payoff a systemic failure of epic proportions without hyperinflating (considering the US Dollar is 100:1 leveraged).
EDIT: I just wanted to state for the record that I feel great glee for those whom, after hearing and reading all that is available on this systemic failure, keep their money in the system and lose their asses during a failure. This especially applies to non-FDIC insured deposits. If you still hold large sums of money in a bank, which isn't for bill paying, you're stupid. If you hold money in a non FDIC insured instrument, you're really stupid. Come on here and whine about it, I will LAFF hard at your stupid.