From Newsmax:
FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair is predicting that the bank failure rate will increase tenfold, according to a U.S. Senator.
Bair said up to 500 more banks could fail, Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky said in a meeting, reported Dow Jones Newswires.
That would put the current crisis close to the level achieved during the late-1980s savings and loan crisis, when 745 thrifts were shut.
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