Glass-Steagall

Tom Lehman TLEHMAN at lor.net
Sun Nov 7 09:09:57 PST 1999


Big question. Will thrifts a/k/a S&L's now be able to sell equities and insurance?

FDIC only covers small deposits. One hundred thousand dollars per institution. Kiss it good-bye.

TL

Enrique Diaz-Alvarez wrote:


> > FDIC
> > (and is this going to disappear, does anybody know?).
>
> Are you kidding? Socialization of risk and financial losses is the centerpiece
> of modern capitalism. Not only FDIC will not be abolished, the mergers will
> extend it to investment banks, thus making the implicit taxpayer guarantee of
> every major and midsize financial institution explicit.
>
> >
> >
> > Tom Frank



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