Posted 4/21/2010 23:28 (#1169907 - in reply to #1164997) Subject: RE: FDIC insurance
C IL
A nearby bank's FDIC insurance increased by a factor of about 11 from pre-crash levels. They had made no bad mortgage loans. Seemed to agitate the (apparently conservative and risk-averse) management a little bit. Insurance increase cost them somewhere near 10% of expected profit for the year.