BILL MOYERS JOURNAL
Author Bill Greider explains to Moyers that the magic of the “free market” is coming to a close.
“This is a really perilous moment.” That’s how one top financier and former treasury official described our economic crisis on the NewsHour this week. Our banking system, he said, “is in worse shape than at any point since the 1930s. We’ve never seen such large losses so fast.”
As he was speaking, California’s big IndyMac Bank went down with a crash, the second worst collapse in U.S. history and sent thousands of depositors out looking for their money. The FDIC, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, took over as reports circulated that the FBI is investigating IndyMac for mortgage fraud. Analysts are predicting that as many as 150 of the 7,500 banks in America may fail over the next 18 months, and one analyst even said that number might double over the next 3 years. More
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