{"id":185264,"date":"2011-08-19T21:04:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-20T02:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/08\/19\/its-bank-failure-friday-i-smell-a-felony-indictment-edition\/"},"modified":"2011-08-19T21:04:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-20T02:04:00","slug":"its-bank-failure-friday-i-smell-a-felony-indictment-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/08\/19\/its-bank-failure-friday-i-smell-a-felony-indictment-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Bank Failure Friday!!!! (I Smell a Felony Indictment Edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something odd on the FDIC failed bank page, do you notice it?<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img20.imageshack.us\/img20\/5453\/bankthurs.gif\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Do you see it? Public Savings Bank, of Huntingdon Valley, PA was closed yesterday, a <b>Thursday<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>The only other time I remember the FDIC closing a bank on a not-Friday, it was when senior bank executives were facing a criminal indictment as well.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s my guess anyway.&nbsp; These non-Friday closings tend to be associated with breaking news of some sort of criminality.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, here are the bank failures, ordered, and numbered for the year so far.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li value=\"65\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fdic.gov\/bank\/individual\/failed\/publicsvgs.html\">Public Savings Bank<\/a>, Huntingdon Valley, PA<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fdic.gov\/bank\/individual\/failed\/lydian.html\">Lydian Private Bank<\/a>, Palm Beach, FL<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fdic.gov\/bank\/individual\/failed\/firstsouthern-ga.html\">First Southern National Bank<\/a>, Statesboro, GA<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fdic.gov\/bank\/individual\/failed\/firstchoice-il.html\">First Choice Bank<\/a>, Geneva, IL<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fdic.gov\/bank\/individual\/failed\/banklist.html\">Full FDIC list<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>So, here is the graph pr0n with last years numbers for comparison (FDIC only):<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img638.imageshack.us\/img638\/1661\/bankfail.gif\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something odd on the FDIC failed bank page, do you notice it? Do you see it? Public Savings Bank, of Huntingdon Valley, PA was closed yesterday, a Thursday. The only other time I remember the FDIC closing a bank on a not-Friday, it was when senior bank executives were facing a criminal indictment as well. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1004,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}