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United Commercial Bank 120th bank to fail this year in U.S.

People Daily (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

The San Francisco-based United Commercial Bank reopen Saturday as branches of East West Bank after it was shut down by regulators Friday night and immediately sold to the Pasadena-based East-West Bancorp. The California Department of Financial Institutions has approved overnight the purchase of the debt-laden bank which has 16 branches in Los Angeles and Orange counties. East-West Bancorp entered into...

• United Commercial Bank is shut down, sold to East West Bancorp - L. A. Times Dodgers Blog
• FDIC seizes United Commercial Bank - The San Francisco Business Times
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Assumption makes it five in a row

Hindu (Free subscription) | yesterday

KOCHI: Despite suffering a stunning loss to host St. Xavier’s College in the last league game, Changanassery’s Assumption College retained the Mahatma Gandhi University inter-collegiate women’s basketball title in Aluva on ...

Krugman: Obama faces his own Anzio

AMERICAblog (Free subscription) | yesterday

Another great read by Paul Krugman . Obama's cautious approach to the economic crisis may lead the way for Democratic losses in 2010. Clearly the situation is better than it was a year ago though as we saw on Friday, employment is still lagging with limited chances of recovery before the mid term elections. Administration officials would presumably argue that they were constrained by political realities,...

Chairman Zero's Nemesis

We The Free (Free subscription) | yesterday

clipped from www.latimes.com The American public has no say in Federal Reserve policy. But the gold market might. The metal hit yet another record high on Friday, gaining $6.40 to $1,095.10 an ounce. It jumped $55 for the week and is up $211, or 24%, year to date. This cannot be comforting to Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke. The classic view of gold is that it is the best inflation hedge. That's a faulty...

• Why gold is shining brighter - L. A. Times Dodgers Blog

Schrodinger’s Asshole

Mostly True Tales (Free subscription) | yesterday

Mirrored from brigidkeely.com/wordpress . So if you speak to a woman who is otherwise occupied, you’re sending a subtle message. It is that your desire to interact trumps her right to be left alone. If you pursue a conversation when she’s tried to cut it off, you send a message. It is that your desire to speak trumps her right to be left alone. And each of those messages indicates that...

Basic Needs

Thoughts From The Heart On The Left (Free subscription) | yesterday

Here are my thoughts for the 23rd Sunday after Pentecost. The Scriptures for this Sunday are Ruth 3: 1 – 5, 4: 13 – 17; Hebrews 9: 24 – 28; and Mark 12: 38 – 44. —————————————————————————– There was an interesting article...

Into the Teeth of Public Opinion

Power Line (Free subscription) | yesterday

At this moment, the House of Representatives has begun to debate Pelosicare. Unexpectedly, the Democrats' leadership is struggling to find the 218 votes needed for passage. The immediate hurdle is abortion. The Democrats' House bill provides for federal funding of abortions, and the pro-life movement has mobilized in support of the Stupak Amendment, which would remove abortion funding from the bill....

Mac Donald: War? What War?

New English Review/The Iconoclast (Free subscription) | yesterday

Heather Mac Donald writes: The Fort Hood shootings are a horrific tragedy, one for which all Americans mourn. Even if the right’s assumption that Nidal Malik Hasan was primarily motivated...

• Fort Hood and the Islamist threat - Secular Right

Blue Dogs, Queen Nancy, and Canine Flexibility

America's Right (Free subscription) | yesterday

By Rick Saunders America's Right Despite the risky assumption that there remains even a shred of conscience or even a solitary scintillum of statesmanship left in certain members of the majority party in Congress, here’s a bold proposal. Admittedly, this suggestion will go absolutely nowhere (because those who would need to act are political cowards who will continue place their own personal...

That Was A Big One

Eschaton (Free subscription) | yesterday

Just getting around to skimming the FDIC press releases. As of October 23, 2009, United Commercial Bank had total assets of $11.2 billion and total deposits of approximately $7.5 billion. East West Bank paid the FDIC a premium of 1.1 percent for the right to assume all of the deposits of United Commercial Bank. In addition to assuming all of the deposits of the failed bank, East West Bank agreed to...

Reading enhances good governance - Gov Aliyu

EverythinLiterature (Free subscription) | yesterday

To Nigerian writers, Governor Mua’zu Babangida Aliyu is not just the Chief Servant of Niger State, but Patron of the Arts, given his interest and tremendous assistance to writers through the Niger State chapter of Association of Nigerian Author, ANA. Since his assumption of office as governor in 2007, he has sponsored various projects and programmes of the chapter to the tune of about 20 million...

07 Nov 2009 Articles & Interesting Finds/Posts

Global Warming Clearinghouse (Free subscription) | yesterday

italic;"> A Look at Climate From Anthony Watts (Watts Up With That? italic;"> Today's Articles Media Sources Use the following portals/Blogs to see the major news articles not listed here. Climate Ark Carbon-Based Climate Change Fraud Greenie Watch Planet Gore/Newsbusters Tom Nelson Blog Solve Climate Climate Depot Gore Lied Grist Results From Today's Google Alert EU researchers call...

Niche Versus Mass Marketing

prudent investor newsletters (Free subscription) | yesterday

Another splendid graphic from Jessica Hagy, which she calls " Ordinary Is Abundant ". From a marketing perspective, this chart/diagram basically illustrates on the distinction between mass marketing and niche marketing . Marketing guru Seth Godin elaborates , ``Mass marketing works best when it assumes that everybody in the entire chain is just plain average. Or even a little bit less...

It Was All Going So Well

Tory Bear (Free subscription) | yesterday

TB was vaguely enthused by the Kelly recommendations and would have been happy to see them installed immediately to end the troughing. However it seems Bercow has dropped an absolute clanger in his choice of Sir Ian Kennedy as head of the new implementation body the IPSA. Well it seems he is New Labour through and through, close friend of Campell who is obviously rattled by the Telegraph given he has...

Syd Barrett Part IIII

Peter H. Donnelly's Mental Health Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday

In order to understand Syd Barrett’s so-called madness, we last but not least, need to have a fairly good understanding, of his visions - or his creative and innovative perceptions - and how he experienced them with his mind, and with other people. His visions, were first and foremost visual, as before he became a musician and songwriter, he was an art student at university. These visions - or...

India and National Health Policy

vivian09 | 15/10/2009

Returning to power in 1980, Indira Gandhi announced a new National Health Policy. It emphasized the need for “securing a small family through voluntary efforts to move towards the goal of population stabilization”. The wishes of the people had been taken into account. India was a vibrant democracy. Qualitative help with essays editing: customized Essay Editing service for students Government could...

Invest In Real Estate With No Money Down

neilsamsung | 24/09/2009

Are you thinking of investing in real estate ? But you do not have enough cash to do so. Here is a tip you can use as long as the property seller is willing to negotiate with you. To be fair, not every seller will be interested (or even understand) the concept outlined. Your best bet is to find a property that the owner has great interest in selling, whether because of moving, divorce or frustration...