As of June 30, the closed banks had total assets of $3.6 billion.

The stock market has average an 8% average return over the last 40 years (it's something along those lines)- but there are billions spent to time it right to buy, sell, short, put..

He is president of the board for a 501 (c)3 (FAR) that holds 3/4 of a billion dollars (more or less) of debt free assets and he looks for things of value in the world to help promote.

Failure This Year Integrity Bank of Alpharetta, Georgia, was closed by U.S. regulators today, the 10th bank to collapse this year amid a surge in soured real-estate loans stemming from the worst housing slump since the Great Depression.Integrity Bank, with $1.1 billion in assets and $974 million in deposits, was shuttered by the Georgia Department of Banking and Finance and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

Not to mention that the Ca. governor says he will call back Sacramento legislators early to correct the 10-14 BILLION deficit.

., with $28 billion of cash to help finance the purchase of brokerages that can't weather the housing recession.

Yet Putnam Funds just closed a $12 billion Money Market Fund due to redemptions by major institutional investors.

Admittedly, this was 15 years ago, but it sure makes any claims of multi-billion bulk reo packages look like total hogwash.Theses were basically limited partnerships where RTC was the limited partner and lender, and another group was the general partner.

In April of last year when Donald Trump announced his quarter-billion dollar luxury development in Panama, he essentially put to rest any argument about systemic emerging market risk.

I have been checking sites and it seems in the last few days, since the $700 Billion dollar bailout, the prices on some homes in foreclosure have jumped dramatically.