bank failure

NOUN
  1. the inability of a bank to meet its credit obligations
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How To Use bank failure In A Sentence

  • After a decade marked by financial disasters and bank failures, the era of unquestioned profit-making would appear to be at an end.
  • Over the years, Congress has created one program after another to insure individuals and businesses against a panoply of hazards, from natural disasters to bank failures to nuclear reactor meltdowns.
  • Such runs could by themselves lead to bank failures. Financial Markets, Institutions and Money
  • The 'down' hours, of course, will coincide with the public remembering that the Democrats are still in charge in Washington and are totally responsible for all our problems, including the sovereign-debt crisis in Greece, potential bank failures throughout the Eurozone, drought conditions in the Southwest, and a particularly bad case of lumbago for Miss Viola Comstock of Pokahootchee, Ga. Rick Horowitz: Financial Crisis: For the GOP, It's All So E-Z
  • Matt seems to be just blowing off the near-term risk of large bank failures in his commentary on these issues, but the risk of something like a double-dip recession makes the near-term risk of large bank failures nontrivial. Matthew Yglesias » Battle Lines on Banking
  • The analyst believed that Washington Reciprocal benefit bank failure is not beyond expectation.
  • However, it said it disagreed with a leverage limit the ICB has proposed since it might constrain lending, and also wants more protection for depositors to outrank senior creditors in the case of bank failures. Nationwide Sees Competition for U.K. Deposits Rise
  • Asian and European investors, looking at this disaster, which both failes to address the credit crisis that has frozen the US economy like a new ice age, and which undermines the already staggering dollar, fled their stock markets and pulled their money from banks, leading to stock market crashes and bank failures around the globe over the weekend. The Markets Have Just Given a Big Raspberry to Paulson, Bernanke, Bush and Congress
  • There has not been a bank failure since 1867 in which the assets were not sufficient to meet the note circulation, even in the case of a notoriously bad failure in which, among other crimes, the concern was guilty of overissuing circulation. The Banking Systems of Canada and the United States
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