The Press Responds to Sheila Bair – Town Hall | LA
The press was out in force to hear Sheila Bair’s presentation at Town Hall | LA on October 27, 2009
Here are their reports:
E. Scott Reckard – FDIC’s Bair offers no comfort to uninsured IndyMac depositors {LA Times}
Karl Denninger – The FDIC Must Be Indicted {The Market Ticker}
Natalie Dolce – FDIC Chairwoman: ‘Too Big to Fail’ Must End {GlobeSt.com}
Jane Sasseen – The FDIC’s Sheila Bair: “There Will Be Losses” {Business Week}
Be sure to read all four stories!
Regulator in IndyMac Case Gets Reassigned
Senator Grassley questions approval of backdated cash injection at IndyMac Bank.
Click Here to read the full story….
Is the IndyMac Deal a Little Too Sweet?
Not for us uninsured depositors!!! Please read this latest article appearing in the The Wall Street Journal this morning Click Here to read. Just another fine example on how the Federal Government and the FDIC are looking out for the interests of failed Indymac Bank uninsured depositors.
Indymac Sale Press Release…
Click Here to see the FDIC press release anouncing the sale of Indymac bank.
Embedded in this release is an attachment. Pasted below, are the first two bullet points of the attachment. Please see the second bullet.
Fact Sheet: FDIC Sale of IndyMac FSB
• The FDIC, as Conservator for IndyMac FSB (“New IndyMac”), entered into a letter
of intent to sell New IndyMac to IMB HoldCo LLC, a thrift holding company
controlled by IMB Management Holdings LP, a limited partnership, for
approximately $13.9 billion. IMB HoldCo is owned by a consortium of private equity
investors led by Steven T. Mnuchin of Dune Capital Management LP.
• Uninsured depositors will not be receiving an additional claims dividend at this time.
Looks like no refunds for depositors at this time according to this official document release.
FDIC Balance Sheet as of 10-20-2008
Greetings all,
This balance sheet is published on the web, but for your convenience, you may CLICK HERE to view it. Definitely looks like our higher math skills are not needed to see a deficit here. Take a peek for your self. The FDIC initially came up with a statement of $8.9 billion as their cost, now it’s running $16.6 billion? Well, the offer is in (according to the press) for $14 billion. Where is the $540 million for us? It already looks like a $2.6 billion dollar deficit.