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To: TobagoJack who wrote (22515)	9/15/2007 6:07:40 PM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 218105

>>being offered the same deal by the grand HSBC<< One day in 1987 during the Alaska oil bust, I noticed that Alaska Mutual Bank was advertising CDs at a full percentage point higher than my own bank. So I went over there to start a CD, and the lobby was full of folks presumably making deposits. I had to wait quite a while for service, and just as my number came up I got cold feet and walked out. The bank rep tried to call me back, but it didn't feel right and and I just boogied. Two weeks later the FDIC shut down the bank, which was insolvent. They combined the assets with those from another failing bank, injected new capital, and reopened the new entity under new management. But the new combined bank went under 18 months later!