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...Normally, the FDIC would assess a special onetime fee to banks to raise the money it needs for its fund. But bank executives have been saying that any additional payments they have to make to the FDIC above their normal quarterly bill would force them to cut lending. Special assessments have to be recorded as a cost when they are paid to the FDIC, which reduce bank earnings and capital. It was a capital crunch that caused the financial crisis in the first place. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...Instead, each bank will add an asset, a big one, to its balance sheet, right below where the cash they just handed over to the FDIC used to be. It will be called something like prepaid FDIC premiums. The asset will shrink each quarter by the amount each bank normally would have paid the FDIC. As the bank shrinks the asset, it will book the normal cost it would have paid the FDIC in fees that quarter, except as we all know, the fees will have already been paid...
Quotes About: "We think it's awesome that it has become so normal that an openly gay man becomes Foreign Minister." - Klaus Jetz, the head of the Lesbian and Gay Association in Germany, on the election results (Associated Press, Sept...
...says he has never encountered a case of superfetation during practice. He says such pregnancies occur when a woman continues ovulating after becoming pregnant and when that second, fertilized egg is able to implant itself in the lining of the womb - two things that wouldn't happen in a normal pregnancy. Typically, hormonal changes prevent further ovulation and thicken the lining of the uterus to preclude a second embryo from attaching. Why didn't that happen with Grovenburg? No one's really sure. (See how to prevent illness...
...governments and central banks have spent tens of billions of dollars of taxpayers' money to rescue financial institutions whose recklessness in the name of short-term profiteering is at the root of the trouble. For all the recent signs of improvement, the financial situation is still far from normal. Some huge financial institutions, from AIG to Royal Bank of Scotland, remain on government life support. Jürgen Stark, a board member of the European Central Bank (ECB), recently estimated that financial institutions operating in Europe alone are facing total losses of around $650 billion between...