Posts Tagged ‘IndyMac’

Make Sure Your Cash Investments are FDIC Insured

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

  Here’s another excerpt from my recent appearance on the Frank Pastore Show on KKLA 99.5, giving some important investment tips:
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When an FDIC-insured bank or saving association fails, like IndyMac, the FDIC protects you against the loss of your deposits. Most people think that they can have 100K in a husband’s name, 100K in a wife’s name, and 200K jointly. But you can’t, the basic insurance amount is 100K per depositor per insured bank.
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IndyMac and Countrywide Share Financial Trouble, Linked by Co-Founder

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

I recently appeared on the Frank Pastore Show on KKLA 99.5, in lieu of IndyMac Federal Banks recent failure, to shed some light on the topic:
   IndyMac and other similar bank failures are not rare and have been highly blown up by the media and Internet. You have to look back to between 1982 and 1992 and remember Charles Keating and the savings and loan debacle, where 2,800 banks were shut down in those years. To
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