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In an unprecedented disclosure, the FDIC has highlighted that it expects the DIF reserve ratio to
be negative as of September 30. As there are a whopping 48 hours before that deadline, one can safely assume that the DIF
is now well into negative territory: as of today depositors have no insurance courtesy of a banking system that has leeched
out all the capital of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Let's pray there is no run on the bank soon.
Pursuant
to these requirements, staff estimates that both the Fund balance and the reserve ratio as of September 30, 2009, will be
negative. This reflects, in part, an increase in provisioning for anticipated failures. In contrast, cash and marketable securities
available to resolve failed institutions remain positive.
Additionally, the FDIC has now raised its expectation
for bank failure costs from $70 billion $100 billion. Feel free to expect this number to continue growing.
Staff
has also projected the Fund balance and reserve ratio for each quarter over the next several years using the most recently
available information on expected failures and loss rates and statistical analyses of trends in CAMELS downgrades, failure
rates and loss rates. Staff projects that, over the period 2009 through 2013, the Fund could incur approximately $100 billion
in failure costs. Staff projects that most of these costs will occur in 2009 and 2010. Approximately $25 billion of the $100
billion amount has already been incurred in failure costs so far in 2009. Staff projects that most of these costs will occur
in 2009 and 2010.
First Mary Schapiro has failed at her task of "regulating" anything on Wall Street,
and now Sheila Bair presides over a newly insolvent institution. Chalk one up to Washington's success at "containing"
the crisis. Zero Hedge wishes Ms. Bair all the luck in the world in returning the DIF to its statutory minimum requirement
of 1.15% of all insured deposits (a shortfall of a mere hundred billion or so). Maybe she can convert the FDIC to a REIT and
have Merrill Lynch do a concurrent IPO and follow-on offering (while Goldman raises it to a Conviction Buy which incorporates
the firm's expectations for 10% GDP growth in 2010 coupled with projections for $1,000 per barrel of crude)?
FDIC's
full memorandum outlining its failure can be found here.
[ link to www.fdic.gov] | NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC: ST IS NOT A MEMBER OF THE FDIC As a debt-free bank, we do not need to become a member
of the scam called FDIC. Therefore Sovereign Trust is not affected by anything that could could happen to FDIC or its author,
the Federal Reserve. Our depositors are insured not because of some hare brain insurance scheme but because ST has assets
- over $87 billion, unlike FDIC member banks whose assets are less than zero. |
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