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The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., whose insurance fund has slipped below the minimum target level set by Congress, could be forced to tap tax dollars through a Treasury Department loan if Washington Mutual Inc., the nation's largest thrift, or another struggling rival fails, economists and industry analysts said Tuesday.
Und das Doomsday-Quote dazu läßt auch nicht auf sich warten:Additional failures of large banks or savings and loans companies seem likely, and that could overwhelm the FDIC's insurance fund, said Brian Bethune, U.S. economist at consulting firm Global Insight."We've got a … retail bank run forming in this country," said Christopher Whalen, senior vice president and managing director of Institutional Risk Analytics.