Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget

One More FDIC Bank Closing

Feb 9, 2010

On Friday evening, the FDIC reported that it has taken over an additional bank (First American State Bank of Minnesota) for a cost to the FDIC of about $3 million. This brings the total number of failed banks since the beginning of 2008 to 182. Total deposits of all failed banks now equal over $8.7 billion for 2010 and $380 billion since the beginning of 2008, all at an estimated cost to the FDIC of about $61.4 billion. Visit Stimulus.org for more details and a full list of FDIC bank closings.

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 Total DepositsCost to the FDIC
First American State Bank of Minnesota$16,300,000$3,100,000