Many of the data in charts and text were taken from the websites of the Federal DepositInsurance Corporation and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
Even officials at the Treasury and the Federal DepositInsurance Corp. sided with the banks, saying the proposal threatened to add risk to thesystem rather than scale it back.
At a minimum there must be a euro-zone-wide system of depositinsurance and oversight, with collective resources for the recapitalisation of endangered institutions and regional rules for the resolution of truly failed banks.