bank failures

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  FDIC closes 2 banks in Florida, 1 in Kentucky

  By AP Staff Writer  |  April 19, 2013

  Regulators on Friday closed two small banks in Florida and one in Kentucky, bringing the total number of U.S. bank closures to eight for this year.

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  LTCI Watch: Cyprus

  By Allison Bell  |  April 3, 2013

  The stuff we have is the stuff we have. The fuss is about future retirement and LTC costs.

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  Could a budget fight rattle the bond market?

  By Matthew Craft  |  December 14, 2012

  On the road and in financial markets, it pays to ask somebody with a good sense of direction.

• How to make the United States healthy, wealthy & wise

  By Richard Hoe, ChFC, CLU, AEP  |  October 1, 2012

  There’s at least one thing the Founding Fathers may never have considered: lobbying!

• The U.S. Is the Six Million Dollar Man of the Global Economy: Dan Gross - Fast Forward (Reuters)

  By Staff Writer  |  June 8, 2012

  Metrics that measure financial failure—bank failures, corporate bankruptcies and defaults, etc.—have all come way down since ’08, ’09, according to Gross.

• Boomers and retirement savings: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly

  By Katie Libbe  |  May 1, 2012

  With a few changes in their financial habits, baby boomers and their heirs can live comfortably in their leisure years.

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  Boomers & Retirement Savings: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Part 1

  By Katie Libbe  |  March 23, 2012

  With a few changes in their financial habits, baby boomers and their heirs can live comfortably in their golden years.

• Bank Earnings Hit Highest Level in 4 Years

  By Derek Kravitz  |  November 22, 2011

  The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said the banking industry earned $35.3 billion in the third quarter. That's up from $23.8 billion in the same period last year.

• What Would You Think?

  By Brian Fechtel  |  June 6, 2011

  IMAGINE THAT YOU and your spouse are fifty year-olds, and in the summer of 2010 hear about the following retirement product.

• How To Benefit From A True Advisor Model

  By Dean Zayed  |  April 29, 2010

  Back in 2006, if you told a financial services professional the market was going to take a tumble and the fallout would be a loss of consumer confidence in the industry, you probably would have been laughed at.