Miscellaneous: Market and Bank Failure

First the market graph from Doug:

Click on graph for larger image in new window. The first graph is from Doug Short of dshort.com (financial planner): "Four Bad Bears". Note that the Great Depression crash is based on the DOW; the three others are for the S&P 500.

And since it is BFF (bank failure friday), here is an update from Bloomberg: FDIC Closes Seized Silverton Bank After Failing to Sell Assets (ht lncolnpk, mark, ron and others)

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. will shut Georgia’s Silverton Bank, seized by regulators in May, after failing to find a buyer for the assets.

A sale is “no longer feasible” and Silverton will be sold in parts, spokesman Andrew Gray said today in an e-mailed statement. The FDIC unsuccessfully sought a buyer before the bank was taken over by regulators May 1, he said.

Silverton was seized by regulators in early May.