Recession looking like depression.
OLEAN -- If you get a call from one of those telephone pollsters asking if you think the United States economy is in recession, don't worry that you're not an economist and fret over your answer for too long. If you want to venture a good guess, just say...

How large is the federal financial safety net?
In the 1980s and early 1990s, U.S. taxpayers paid $130 billion to make good on the federal government's guarantee to protect depositors in thrift institutions (U.S. GAO 1996: 14). The crisis affecting thrifts in the late 1980s exhausted the funds that had been set aside by the deposit insurance...

Move over, Charles Keating.
Mother Teresa called him Charlie, as in, "How is my friend Charlie Keating?" That was the Calcutta matron-saint's first question to Senator Dennis DeConcini when they met. To her, Keating was the devout Catholic who had given her a $1.4 million donation. To most Americans, Charlie is a crook....

The structure and growth of the credit union industry in the United States: meeting challenges in the market.
I Introduction THE DEREGULATION of the financial services industry in the United States, which began to be implemented in 1977, is now more than fifteen years old. Depository, investment, insurance, brokerage and credit type financial intermediaries have evolved into what is called the financial services industry. A complex...

Banana split: the gloves are off and the unholy spat to gain control over the world banana trade keeps getting bloodier by the minute ...
WHAT do chandeliers, pecorino cheese, bed linen without embroidered borders, plastic-coated handbags, biscuits, cashmere sweaters, coffee- or tea-makers (excepting those from Italy), Carl H Lindner Jnr and truffles have in common? You've guessed it. Bananas. All of these items -- except bananas and Mr Lindner -- are...

Financial institutions fraud.
This article reviews three methods by which the federal government may take action in cases involving financial institutions. The first section discusses federal prosecutions of financial institutions fraud under section 1344 of Title 18 of the United States Code,(1) the basic provision under which such crimes are charged. The second...

`A provision for themselves and their families?' Women depositors of the Savings Bank of New South Wales, 1846-1871.
It has been suggested that the middle decades of the nineteenth century in New South Wales represented a period of significant change in the ways in which people attempted to secure themselves and their families against risk.(1) Those changes were facilitated by the establishment of institutions through which people...

Entity Coverage.
Entity Plus, developed by The St. Paul Cos., was developed for corporate entities and individual directors as an insurance coverage option for privately held depository institutions, such as community banks, savings and loans, and credit unions. The coverage is for institutions with a maximum of $1 billion in assets....

Careers in banking.
If you plan to plunge into a job at any of the nation's 12,000 banks or 2300 thrift institutions, pay keen attention to Washington's vigorous watchdogging over banking. The Clinton Administration has scared the wits out of big banks, forcing them to check whether they're living up to the...

Juggling Money: Financial Self-help Organizations and Social Security in Yogyakarta.
Juggling Money: Financial Self-help Organizations and Social Security in Yogyakarta. By Hotze Lont. Leiden: KITLV Press, 2005. xiv, 292 pp. The study focuses on two subjects that are somewhat related: financial self-help organizations (SHOs) and social security. The author took his inspiration from two sources: (a) a...