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Subject: WaMu win Justice will send BAC to $30 - 40 / Must Read ( Very Long Typing)
WaMu
http://www.patenthawk.com/blog/2009/04/wamu.html
Washington Mutual (WaMu) is a poster child of the mortgage-lending
irrational exuberance that led to the current economic depression. A
run on the bank last September led to its wrenching government-
mandated rescue by JP Morgan Chase. WaMu was the biggest bank failure
in U.S. history, and was sold in a hastily arranged wamu-bam-thank-you-
man auction. WaMu is now suing the FDIC, for selling it off for only
$1.9 billion, claiming it had no such right. Meanwhile, JP Morgan has
filed its own suit, seeking title to disputed WaMu assets, including
its tiny portfolio of eight patents granted and pending, as well as
over 300 domestic and international trademarks, and 1,300 Web domain
names. The Delaware district court judge handling WaMu's bankruptcy
case has given WaMu permission to hire a consulting firm to valuate
the bank's IP assets.

Posted by Patent Hawk at April 16, 2009 10:11 PM | Patents In Business

Comments
http://wamustory.com/

http://wamuqd.com/

Posted by: HROLLER at April 20, 2009 2:11 PM

On Thursday September 25th 2008, Washington Mutual Inc aka WaMu Inc.
or WMI or WaMu, common shares trading under the symbol WM, opened at
$2.62, rose to $2.69 within the first hour, and then fell on average
for the rest of the day and closed at $1.69. In after hours trading it
quickly dived without stopping to as low as $0.09 and then closed a
couple hours later at $0.16. Take note it fell 90.5% just in after
hours. During the regular day it fell 35.5%. For the entire day it
fell 93.89%. All these percentages are based on the open, and
excluding the pre-market trading data, which I do not have. For the
day, the DJIA rose 196.89 points, and closed at 11,022.06

Clearly anyone who held WaMu through the day experienced a financial
wipeout in their position. What caused this wipeout? In a statement
issued on the night of September 25th the Office of Thrift Supervision
(OTS), an office of the US Treasury, said “An outflow of deposits
began on September 15, 2008, totaling $16.7 billion. With insufficient
liquidity to meet its obligations, WaMu was in an unsafe and unsound
condition to transact business. The OTS closed the institution and
appointed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) as
receiver. The FDIC held the bidding process that resulted in the
acquisition by JPMorgan Chase.” (link). WaMu had been sold and seized.
The process of selling and seizing WaMu had actually begun prior to
September 15th, reportedly having been started during the first week
of September, 2008.

Washington Mutual Inc is a bank holding company that owned two banks,
the Washington Mutual Bank, Henderson, NV and a subsidiary of that
bank, Washington Mutual Bank, FSB, Park City, UT. The first mentioned
bank was the main banking operation, and the focus of everyone's
attention. Both banks received the same treatment simultaneously on
September 25th, 2008. For brevity they are usually referred to
singularly as the Washington Mutual Bank aka WaMu Bank or WMB or WaMu.
For the rest of this text this convention will be followed and they
will be referred to as one enterprise and principally referring to the
vastly larger Henderson NV incorporated bank.

Seventeen days earlier on Monday September 8th, the Board of
Washington Mutual removed CEO Kerry Killinger due to losses from
subprime mortgages and credit card loans and replaced him with Alan
Fishman. WaMu simultaneously announced (link) that they had negotiated
a Memorandum of Understanding with the OTS concerning aspects of the
bank’s operations. It concluded with this sentence. "The business plan
will not require the company to raise capital, increase liquidity or
make changes to the products and services it provides to customers."
WaMu's new CEO Alan Fishman was experienced in bank mergers. In 2004
as CEO of Independence Community Bank Corp he completed a merger with
Staten Island Bancorp, Inc and then in 2006 he worked out the well
executed sale of Independence Community Bank Corp to Sovereign
Bancorp. His employment and hefty salary with WaMu were seen as an
indication WaMu was setting itself up for a merger.

For the ten days prior to the seizure WaMu experienced an acceleration
of withdrawals, and corresponding draw downs in its liquidity, that
the regulators at the OTS and FDIC say justified a seizure of the
bank. The accounts that withdrew were mostly large retail accounts of
over $100,000, which at the time was the FDIC insurance maximum. These
accounts were used primarily for payroll purposes. These accounts were
mostly in California, where the memory of the IndyMac bank seizure was
likely on their minds. The speed and amounts withdrawn do not qualify
as a bank run, as a bank run is a complete wipeout of deposits over a
few days. At most it could be characterized as a walk on the bank. The
withdrawals were done by electronic banking over the internet and by
wired funds. It was not in the news, people were not lined up outside
the bank. WaMu was the largest thrift or savings & Loan in the nation,
and the sixth largest bank by deposits. They had 2,239 branches in 15
states, concentrated in the west and south. They were large enough
that the Federal Reserve assigned them onsite full time bank
inspectors to monitor, among other things, liquidity levels. The
Federal Reserve was witness from beginning to end of the liquidity
draw down.

A walk on a bank, is a mild form of a run on a bank. Bank runs were
typical of the great depression which started in 1929. Customers
wanted their cash in their hand, because if a bank died and locked its
doors, their cash would be forever beyond their reach. Bank runs have
an effect on the public and the government that tends to snowball and
be a self fulfilling prophecy. If a new bank has a problem, because a
bank run has happened recently, it may be happening again now, so they
do a run on that bank etc. Bank runs close banks down, and draw their
cash down to zero. A slew of bank runs that closes banks down is known
as a bank panic.

In response to the bank panics of 1929 and the early 1930's, in 1933
the government created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
(FDIC). The FDIC is a government corporation that provides insurance
on bank deposits. The primary reason for creating the FDIC was to
prevent bank runs, from the demand side, depositors demanding cash all
at once at the bank, which had been the typical bank run scenario in
the depression of the early 1930's. The mechanism to do this was
deposit insurance so that even if a bank locks its doors, your
deposits are covered up to the insurance maximum and you will be paid
your money from the insurance fund. At the time of the WaMu seizure
the insurance covered up to $100,000. In large part due to the WaMu
catastrophe the FDIC has implemented a temporary increase in the
amount of deposit insurance, and it is now $250,000 until Dec 31,
2009, unless extended. The Chairman and four Board of Directors of the
FDIC are all appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate,
with no more than three being from the same political party. The FDIC
is self funded through its insurance premiums, which are paid by the
banks. The FDIC has an immediate $30 billion line of credit with the
US Treasury, and procedures are in place if more credit is needed.
From 1996 - 2006 the FDIC waived the collection of the bank insurance
premiums as it was at the upper limit of its legal reserves.

The Federal Reserve system was created in 1913. One primary reason for
creating the Federal Reserve was to prevent bank runs, from the supply
side, the running out of cash at the bank, which had been a problem
causing bank runs in the recession of 1907. The mechanism for doing
this is by the banks loaning liquidity to each other in a process
called Federal Funds, which is short for Federal Reserve Funds. Then
there is a process of a bank borrowing straight from the Federal
Reserve called the Discount Window. The Federal Reserve is a private
corporation whose stockholders are the biggest banks in the country.
The Chairman and the six Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve are
all appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. This is
the legal extent of the Governments involvement with the Federal
Reserve. Thus the government has weak control over the actions of the
Federal Reserve. All banks in America are members of the Federal
Reserve System. All paper money is printed by the Treasury per the
amounts ordered by the Federal Reserve. All electronic money, wires,
credit cards, debit cards etc and all check book money, is under the
monetary policies of the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve controls
how much money, (cash, electronic, check book) banks have on hand
through its regulations and membership requirements. It maintains this
flexibility so that it may meet the liquidity demands of banks.

WaMu was the largest thrift in America and part of the Federal Reserve
System. WaMu had some no pay and slow pay mortgage loans, like most
banks in America today. These loans were not an overwhelming problem
for WaMu, as they had enough cash reserves on hand to last two years
at the current bad loan rate.

On March 10, 2000 the Dot Com bubble burst. The Federal Reserve began
lowering interest rates to make borrowing more attractive, to
stimulate the economy out of the slump caused by the Dot Com bubble
bust. On September 11, 2001 there was the WTC-Pentagon 9-11 tragedy,
and the Federal Reserve continued lowering interest rates to keep the
economy moving. On July 30, 2000 the Federal Funds rate was 7.03% and
by July 30, 2003 it was 1.03%, a drop of six points or 85.7%. The
swing from March 2000 was probably wider, but the data older than July
2000 could not be found. People saw this as a good time to ...

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WaMu
http://www.patenthawk.com/blog/2009/04/wamu.html
Washington Mutual (WaMu) is a poster child of the mortgage-lending
irrational exuberance that led to the current economic depression. A
run on the bank last September led to its wrenching government-
mandated rescue by JP Morgan Chase. WaMu was the biggest bank failure
in U.S. history, and was sold in a hastily arranged wamu-bam-thank-
you-
man auction. WaMu is now suing the FDIC, for selling it off for only
$1.9 billion, claiming it had no such right. Meanwhile, JP Morgan has
filed its own suit, seeking title to disputed WaMu assets, including
its tiny portfolio of eight patents granted and pending, as well as
over 300 domestic and international trademarks, and 1,300 Web domain
names. The Delaware district court judge handling WaMu's bankruptcy
case has given WaMu permission to hire a consulting firm to valuate
the bank's IP assets.

Posted by Patent Hawk at April 16, 2009 10:11 PM | Patents In
Business

Comments
http://wamustory.com/

http://wamuqd.com/

Posted by: HROLLER at April 20, 2009 2:11 PM

On Thursday September 25th 2008, Washington Mutual Inc aka WaMu Inc.
or WMI or WaMu, common shares trading under the symbol WM, opened at
$2.62, rose to $2.69 within the first hour, and then fell on average
for the rest of the day and closed at $1.69. In after hours trading
it
quickly dived without stopping to as low as $0.09 and then closed a
couple hours later at $0.16. Take note it fell 90.5% just in after
hours. During the regular day it fell 35.5%. For the entire day it
fell 93.89%. All these percentages are based on the open, and
excluding the pre-market trading data, which I do not have. For the
day, the DJIA rose 196.89 points, and closed at 11,022.06

Clearly anyone who held WaMu through the day experienced a financial
wipeout in their position. What caused this wipeout? In a statement
issued on the night of September 25th the Office of Thrift
Supervision
(OTS), an office of the US Treasury, said “An outflow of deposits
began on September 15, 2008, totaling $16.7 billion. With
insufficient
liquidity to meet its obligations, WaMu was in an unsafe and unsound
condition to transact business. The OTS closed the institution and
appointed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) as
receiver. The FDIC held the bidding process that resulted in the
acquisition by JPMorgan Chase.” (link). WaMu had been sold and
seized.
The process of selling and seizing WaMu had actually begun prior to
September 15th, reportedly having been started during the first week
of September, 2008.

Washington Mutual Inc is a bank holding company that owned two banks,
the Washington Mutual Bank, Henderson, NV and a subsidiary of that
bank, Washington Mutual Bank, FSB, Park City, UT. The first mentioned
bank was the main banking operation, and the focus of everyone's
attention. Both banks received the same treatment simultaneously on
September 25th, 2008. For brevity they are usually referred to
singularly as the Washington Mutual Bank aka WaMu Bank or WMB or
WaMu.
For the rest of this text this convention will be followed and they
will be referred to as one enterprise and principally referring to
the
vastly larger Henderson NV incorporated bank.

Seventeen days earlier on Monday September 8th, the Board of
Washington Mutual removed CEO Kerry Killinger due to losses from
subprime mortgages and credit card loans and replaced him with Alan
Fishman. WaMu simultaneously announced (link) that they had
negotiated
a Memorandum of Understanding with the OTS concerning aspects of the
bank’s operations. It concluded with this sentence. "The business
plan
will not require the company to raise capital, increase liquidity or
make changes to the products and services it provides to customers."
WaMu's new CEO Alan Fishman was experienced in bank mergers. In 2004
as CEO of Independence Community Bank Corp he completed a merger with
Staten Island Bancorp, Inc and then in 2006 he worked out the well
executed sale of Independence Community Bank Corp to Sovereign
Bancorp. His employment and hefty salary with WaMu were seen as an
indication WaMu was setting itself up for a merger.

For the ten days prior to the seizure WaMu experienced an
acceleration
of withdrawals, and corresponding draw downs in its liquidity, that
the regulators at the OTS and FDIC say justified a seizure of the
bank. The accounts that withdrew were mostly large retail accounts of
over $100,000, which at the time was the FDIC insurance maximum.
These
accounts were used primarily for payroll purposes. These accounts
were
mostly in California, where the memory of the IndyMac bank seizure
was
likely on their minds. The speed and amounts withdrawn do not qualify
as a bank run, as a bank run is a complete wipeout of deposits over a
few days. At most it could be characterized as a walk on the bank.
The
withdrawals were done by electronic banking over the internet and by
wired funds. It was not in the news, people were not lined up outside
the bank. WaMu was the largest thrift or savings & Loan in the
nation,
and the sixth largest bank by deposits. They had 2,239 branches in 15
states, concentrated in the west and south. They were large enough
that the Federal Reserve assigned them onsite full time bank
inspectors to monitor, among other things, liquidity levels. The
Federal Reserve was witness from beginning to end of the liquidity
draw down.

A walk on a bank, is a mild form of a run on a bank. Bank runs were
typical of the great depression which started in 1929. Customers
wanted their cash in their hand, because if a bank died and locked
its
doors, their cash would be forever beyond their reach. Bank runs have
an effect on the public and the government that tends to snowball and
be a self fulfilling prophecy. If a new bank has a problem, because a
bank run has happened recently, it may be happening again now, so
they
do a run on that bank etc. Bank runs close banks down, and draw their
cash down to zero. A slew of bank runs that closes banks down is
known
as a bank panic.

In response to the bank panics of 1929 and the early 1930's, in 1933
the government created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
(FDIC). The FDIC is a government corporation that provides insurance
on bank deposits. The primary reason for creating the FDIC was to
prevent bank runs, from the demand side, depositors demanding cash
all
at once at the bank, which had been the typical bank run scenario in
the depression of the early 1930's. The mechanism to do this was
deposit insurance so that even if a bank locks its doors, your
deposits are covered up to the insurance maximum and you will be paid
your money from the insurance fund. At the time of the WaMu seizure
the insurance covered up to $100,000. In large part due to the WaMu
catastrophe the FDIC has implemented a temporary increase in the
amount of deposit insurance, and it is now $250,000 until Dec 31,
2009, unless extended. The Chairman and four Board of Directors of
the
FDIC are all appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate,
with no more than three being from the same political party. The FDIC
is self funded through its insurance premiums, which are paid by the
banks. The FDIC has an immediate $30 billion line of credit with the
US Treasury, and procedures are in place if more credit is needed.
From 1996 - 2006 the FDIC waived the collection of the bank insurance
premiums as it was at the upper limit of its legal reserves.

The Federal Reserve system was created in 1913. One primary reason
for
creating the Federal Reserve was to prevent bank runs, from the
supply
side, the running out of cash at the bank, which had been a problem
causing bank runs in the recession of 1907. The mechanism for doing
this is by the banks loaning liquidity to each other in a process
called Federal Funds, which is short for Federal Reserve Funds. Then
there is a process of a bank borrowing straight from the Federal
Reserve called the Discount Window. The Federal Reserve is a private
corporation whose stockholders are the biggest banks in the country.
The Chairman and the six Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
are
all appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. This is
the legal extent of the Governments involvement with the Federal
Reserve. Thus the government has weak control over the actions of the
Federal Reserve. All banks in America are members of the Federal
Reserve System. All paper money is printed by the Treasury per the
amounts ordered by the Federal Reserve. All electronic money, wires,
credit cards, debit cards etc and all check book money, is under the
monetary policies of the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve
controls
how much money, (cash, electronic, check book) banks have on hand
through its regulations and membership requirements. It maintains
this
flexibility so that it may meet the liquidity demands of banks.

WaMu was the largest thrift in America and part of the Federal
Reserve
System. WaMu had some no pay and slow pay mortgage loans, like most
banks in America today. These loans were not an overwhelming problem
for WaMu, as they had enough cash reserves on hand to last two years
at the current bad loan rate.

On March 10, 2000 the Dot Com bubble burst. The Federal Reserve began
lowering ...

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WaMu
http://www.patenthawk.com/blog/2009/04/wamu.html
Washington Mutual (WaMu) is a poster child of the mortgage-lending
irrational exuberance that led to the current economic depression. A
run on the bank last September led to its wrenching government-
mandated rescue by JP Morgan Chase. WaMu was the biggest bank failure
in U.S. history, and was sold in a hastily arranged wamu-bam-thank-
you-
man auction. WaMu is now suing the FDIC, for selling it off for only
$1.9 billion, claiming it had no such right. Meanwhile, JP Morgan has
filed its own suit, seeking title to disputed WaMu assets, including
its tiny portfolio of eight patents granted and pending, as well as
over 300 domestic and international trademarks, and 1,300 Web domain
names. The Delaware district court judge handling WaMu's bankruptcy
case has given WaMu permission to hire a consulting firm to valuate
the bank's IP assets.

Posted by Patent Hawk at April 16, 2009 10:11 PM | Patents In
Business

Comments
http://wamustory.com/

http://wamuqd.com/

Posted by: HROLLER at April 20, 2009 2:11 PM

On Thursday September 25th 2008, Washington Mutual Inc aka WaMu Inc.
or WMI or WaMu, common shares trading under the symbol WM, opened at
$2.62, rose to $2.69 within the first hour, and then fell on average
for the rest of the day and closed at $1.69. In after hours trading
it
quickly dived without stopping to as low as $0.09 and then closed a
couple hours later at $0.16. Take note it fell 90.5% just in after
hours. During the regular day it fell 35.5%. For the entire day it
fell 93.89%. All these percentages are based on the open, and
excluding the pre-market trading data, which I do not have. For the
day, the DJIA rose 196.89 points, and closed at 11,022.06

Clearly anyone who held WaMu through the day experienced a financial
wipeout in their position. What caused this wipeout? In a statement
issued on the night of September 25th the Office of Thrift
Supervision
(OTS), an office of the US Treasury, said “An outflow of deposits
began on September 15, 2008, totaling $16.7 billion. With
insufficient
liquidity to meet its obligations, WaMu was in an unsafe and unsound
condition to transact business. The OTS closed the institution and
appointed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) as
receiver. The FDIC held the bidding process that resulted in the
acquisition by JPMorgan Chase.” (link). WaMu had been sold and
seized.
The process of selling and seizing WaMu had actually begun prior to
September 15th, reportedly having been started during the first week
of September, 2008.

Washington Mutual Inc is a bank holding company that owned two banks,
the Washington Mutual Bank, Henderson, NV and a subsidiary of that
bank, Washington Mutual Bank, FSB, Park City, UT. The first mentioned
bank was the main banking operation, and the focus of everyone's
attention. Both banks received the same treatment simultaneously on
September 25th, 2008. For brevity they are usually referred to
singularly as the Washington Mutual Bank aka WaMu Bank or WMB or
WaMu.
For the rest of this text this convention will be followed and they
will be referred to as one enterprise and principally referring to
the
vastly larger Henderson NV incorporated bank.

Seventeen days earlier on Monday September 8th, the Board of
Washington Mutual removed CEO Kerry Killinger due to losses from
subprime mortgages and credit card loans and replaced him with Alan
Fishman. WaMu simultaneously announced (link) that they had
negotiated
a Memorandum of Understanding with the OTS concerning aspects of the
bank’s operations. It concluded with this sentence. "The business
plan
will not require the company to raise capital, increase liquidity or
make changes to the products and services it provides to customers."
WaMu's new CEO Alan Fishman was experienced in bank mergers. In 2004
as CEO of Independence Community Bank Corp he completed a merger with
Staten Island Bancorp, Inc and then in 2006 he worked out the well
executed sale of Independence Community Bank Corp to Sovereign
Bancorp. His employment and hefty salary with WaMu were seen as an
indication WaMu was setting itself up for a merger.

For the ten days prior to the seizure WaMu experienced an
acceleration
of withdrawals, and corresponding draw downs in its liquidity, that
the regulators at the OTS and FDIC say justified a seizure of the
bank. The accounts that withdrew were mostly large retail accounts of
over $100,000, which at the time was the FDIC insurance maximum.
These
accounts were used primarily for payroll purposes. These accounts
were
mostly in California, where the memory of the IndyMac bank seizure
was
likely on their minds. The speed and amounts withdrawn do not qualify
as a bank run, as a bank run is a complete wipeout of deposits over a
few days. At most it could be characterized as a walk on the bank.
The
withdrawals were done by electronic banking over the internet and by
wired funds. It was not in the news, people were not lined up outside
the bank. WaMu was the largest thrift or savings & Loan in the
nation,
and the sixth largest bank by deposits. They had 2,239 branches in 15
states, concentrated in the west and south. They were large enough
that the Federal Reserve assigned them onsite full time bank
inspectors to monitor, among other things, liquidity levels. The
Federal Reserve was witness from beginning to end of the liquidity
draw down.

A walk on a bank, is a mild form of a run on a bank. Bank runs were
typical of the great depression which started in 1929. Customers
wanted their cash in their hand, because if a bank died and locked
its
doors, their cash would be forever beyond their reach. Bank runs have
an effect on the public and the government that tends to snowball and
be a self fulfilling prophecy. If a new bank has a problem, because a
bank run has happened recently, it may be happening again now, so
they
do a run on that bank etc. Bank runs close banks down, and draw their
cash down to zero. A slew of bank runs that closes banks down is
known
as a bank panic.

In response to the bank panics of 1929 and the early 1930's, in 1933
the government created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
(FDIC). The FDIC is a government corporation that provides insurance
on bank deposits. The primary reason for creating the FDIC was to
prevent bank runs, from the demand side, depositors demanding cash
all
at once at the bank, which had been the typical bank run scenario in
the depression of the early 1930's. The mechanism to do this was
deposit insurance so that even if a bank locks its doors, your
deposits are covered up to the insurance maximum and you will be paid
your money from the insurance fund. At the time of the WaMu seizure
the insurance covered up to $100,000. In large part due to the WaMu
catastrophe the FDIC has implemented a temporary increase in the
amount of deposit insurance, and it is now $250,000 until Dec 31,
2009, unless extended. The Chairman and four Board of Directors of
the
FDIC are all appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate,
with no more than three being from the same political party. The FDIC
is self funded through its insurance premiums, which are paid by the
banks. The FDIC has an immediate $30 billion line of credit with the
US Treasury, and procedures are in place if more credit is needed.
From 1996 - 2006 the FDIC waived the collection of the bank insurance
premiums as it was at the upper limit of its legal reserves.

The Federal Reserve system was created in 1913. One primary reason
for
creating the Federal Reserve was to prevent bank runs, from the
supply
side, the running out of cash at the bank, which had been a problem
causing bank runs in the recession of 1907. The mechanism for doing
this is by the banks loaning liquidity to each other in a process
called Federal Funds, which is short for Federal Reserve Funds. Then
there is a process of a bank borrowing straight from the Federal
Reserve called the Discount Window. The Federal Reserve is a private
corporation whose stockholders are the biggest banks in the country.
The Chairman and the six Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
are
all appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. This is
the legal extent of the Governments involvement with the Federal
Reserve. Thus the government has weak control over the actions of the
Federal Reserve. All banks in America are members of the Federal
Reserve System. All paper money is printed by the Treasury per the
amounts ordered by the Federal Reserve. All electronic money, wires,
credit cards, debit cards etc and all check book money, is under the
monetary policies of the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve
controls
how much money, (cash, electronic, check book) banks have on hand
through its regulations and membership requirements. It maintains
this
flexibility so that it may meet the liquidity demands of banks.

WaMu was the largest thrift in America and part of the Federal
Reserve
System. WaMu had some no pay and slow pay mortgage loans, like most
banks in America today. These loans were not an overwhelming problem
for WaMu, as they had enough cash reserves on hand to last two years
at the current bad loan rate.

On March 10, 2000 the Dot Com bubble burst. The Federal Reserve began
lowering interest rates to make borrowing more attractive, to
stimulate the economy out of the slump caused by the Dot Com bubble
bust. On September 11, 2001 there was the WTC-Pentagon 9-11 tragedy,
and the Federal Reserve continued lowering interest rates to keep the
economy moving. On July 30, 2000 the Federal Funds rate was 7.03% and
by July 30, 2003 it was 1.03%, a drop of six points or 85.7%. The
swing from March 2000 was probably wider, but the data older than
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Subject: Re: Hey WaMu
WaMu
http://www.patenthawk.com/blog/2009/04/wamu.html
Washington Mutual (WaMu) is a poster child of the mortgage-lending
irrational exuberance that led to the current economic depression. A
run on the bank last September led to its wrenching government-
mandated rescue by JP Morgan Chase. WaMu was the biggest bank failure
in U.S. history, and was sold in a hastily arranged wamu-bam-thank-
you-
man auction. WaMu is now suing the FDIC, for selling it off for only
$1.9 billion, claiming it had no such right. Meanwhile, JP Morgan has
filed its own suit, seeking title to disputed WaMu assets, including
its tiny portfolio of eight patents granted and pending, as well as
over 300 domestic and international trademarks, and 1,300 Web domain
names. The Delaware district court judge handling WaMu's bankruptcy
case has given WaMu permission to hire a consulting firm to valuate
the bank's IP assets.

Posted by Patent Hawk at April 16, 2009 10:11 PM | Patents In
Business

Comments
http://wamustory.com/

http://wamuqd.com/

Posted by: HROLLER at April 20, 2009 2:11 PM

On Thursday September 25th 2008, Washington Mutual Inc aka WaMu Inc.
or WMI or WaMu, common shares trading under the symbol WM, opened at
$2.62, rose to $2.69 within the first hour, and then fell on average
for the rest of the day and closed at $1.69. In after hours trading
it
quickly dived without stopping to as low as $0.09 and then closed a
couple hours later at $0.16. Take note it fell 90.5% just in after
hours. During the regular day it fell 35.5%. For the entire day it
fell 93.89%. All these percentages are based on the open, and
excluding the pre-market trading data, which I do not have. For the
day, the DJIA rose 196.89 points, and closed at 11,022.06

Clearly anyone who held WaMu through the day experienced a financial
wipeout in their position. What caused this wipeout? In a statement
issued on the night of September 25th the Office of Thrift
Supervision
(OTS), an office of the US Treasury, said “An outflow of deposits
began on September 15, 2008, totaling $16.7 billion. With
insufficient
liquidity to meet its obligations, WaMu was in an unsafe and unsound
condition to transact business. The OTS closed the institution and
appointed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) as
receiver. The FDIC held the bidding process that resulted in the
acquisition by JPMorgan Chase.” (link). WaMu had been sold and
seized.
The process of selling and seizing WaMu had actually begun prior to
September 15th, reportedly having been started during the first week
of September, 2008.

Washington Mutual Inc is a bank holding company that owned two banks,
the Washington Mutual Bank, Henderson, NV and a subsidiary of that
bank, Washington Mutual Bank, FSB, Park City, UT. The first mentioned
bank was the main banking operation, and the focus of everyone's
attention. Both banks received the same treatment simultaneously on
September 25th, 2008. For brevity they are usually referred to
singularly as the Washington Mutual Bank aka WaMu Bank or WMB or
WaMu.
For the rest of this text this convention will be followed and they
will be referred to as one enterprise and principally referring to
the
vastly larger Henderson NV incorporated bank.

Seventeen days earlier on Monday September 8th, the Board of
Washington Mutual removed CEO Kerry Killinger due to losses from
subprime mortgages and credit card loans and replaced him with Alan
Fishman. WaMu simultaneously announced (link) that they had
negotiated
a Memorandum of Understanding with the OTS concerning aspects of the
bank’s operations. It concluded with this sentence. "The business
plan
will not require the company to raise capital, increase liquidity or
make changes to the products and services it provides to customers."
WaMu's new CEO Alan Fishman was experienced in bank mergers. In 2004
as CEO of Independence Community Bank Corp he completed a merger with
Staten Island Bancorp, Inc and then in 2006 he worked out the well
executed sale of Independence Community Bank Corp to Sovereign
Bancorp. His employment and hefty salary with WaMu were seen as an
indication WaMu was setting itself up for a merger.

For the ten days prior to the seizure WaMu experienced an
acceleration
of withdrawals, and corresponding draw downs in its liquidity, that
the regulators at the OTS and FDIC say justified a seizure of the
bank. The accounts that withdrew were mostly large retail accounts of
over $100,000, which at the time was the FDIC insurance maximum.
These
accounts were used primarily for payroll purposes. These accounts
were
mostly in California, where the memory of the IndyMac bank seizure
was
likely on their minds. The speed and amounts withdrawn do not qualify
as a bank run, as a bank run is a complete wipeout of deposits over a
few days. At most it could be characterized as a walk on the bank.
The
withdrawals were done by electronic banking over the internet and by
wired funds. It was not in the news, people were not lined up outside
the bank. WaMu was the largest thrift or savings & Loan in the
nation,
and the sixth largest bank by deposits. They had 2,239 branches in 15
states, concentrated in the west and south. They were large enough
that the Federal Reserve assigned them onsite full time bank
inspectors to monitor, among other things, liquidity levels. The
Federal Reserve was witness from beginning to end of the liquidity
draw down.

A walk on a bank, is a mild form of a run on a bank. Bank runs were
typical of the great depression which started in 1929. Customers
wanted their cash in their hand, because if a bank died and locked
its
doors, their cash would be forever beyond their reach. Bank runs have
an effect on the public and the government that tends to snowball and
be a self fulfilling prophecy. If a new bank has a problem, because a
bank run has happened recently, it may be happening again now, so
they
do a run on that bank etc. Bank runs close banks down, and draw their
cash down to zero. A slew of bank runs that closes banks down is
known
as a bank panic.

In response to the bank panics of 1929 and the early 1930's, in 1933
the government created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
(FDIC). The FDIC is a government corporation that provides insurance
on bank deposits. The primary reason for creating the FDIC was to
prevent bank runs, from the demand side, depositors demanding cash
all
at once at the bank, which had been the typical bank run scenario in
the depression of the early 1930's. The mechanism to do this was
deposit insurance so that even if a bank locks its doors, your
deposits are covered up to the insurance maximum and you will be paid
your money from the insurance fund. At the time of the WaMu seizure
the insurance covered up to $100,000. In large part due to the WaMu
catastrophe the FDIC has implemented a temporary increase in the
amount of deposit insurance, and it is now $250,000 until Dec 31,
2009, unless extended. The Chairman and four Board of Directors of
the
FDIC are all appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate,
with no more than three being from the same political party. The FDIC
is self funded through its insurance premiums, which are paid by the
banks. The FDIC has an immediate $30 billion line of credit with the
US Treasury, and procedures are in place if more credit is needed.
From 1996 - 2006 the FDIC waived the collection of the bank insurance
premiums as it was at the upper limit of its legal reserves.

The Federal Reserve system was created in 1913. One primary reason
for
creating the Federal Reserve was to prevent bank runs, from the
supply
side, the running out of cash at the bank, which had been a problem
causing bank runs in the recession of 1907. The mechanism for doing
this is by the banks loaning liquidity to each other in a process
called Federal Funds, which is short for Federal Reserve Funds. Then
there is a process of a bank borrowing straight from the Federal
Reserve called the Discount Window. The Federal Reserve is a private
corporation whose stockholders are the biggest banks in the country.
The Chairman and the six Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
are
all appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. This is
the legal extent of the Governments involvement with the Federal
Reserve. Thus the government has weak control over the actions of the
Federal Reserve. All banks in America are members of the Federal
Reserve System. All paper money is printed by the Treasury per the
amounts ordered by the Federal Reserve. All electronic money, wires,
credit cards, debit cards etc and all check book money, is under the
monetary policies of the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve
controls
how much money, (cash, electronic, check book) banks have on hand
through its regulations and membership requirements. It maintains
this
flexibility so that it may meet the liquidity demands of banks.

WaMu was the largest thrift in America and part of the Federal
Reserve
System. WaMu had some no pay and slow pay mortgage loans, like most
banks in America today. These loans were not an overwhelming problem
for WaMu, as they had enough cash reserves on hand to last two years
at the current bad loan rate.

On March 10, 2000 the Dot Com bubble burst. The Federal Reserve began
lowering interest rates to make borrowing more attractive, to
stimulate the economy out of the slump caused by the Dot Com bubble
bust. On September 11, 2001 there was the WTC-Pentagon 9-11 tragedy,
and the Federal Reserve continued lowering interest rates to keep the
economy moving. On July 30, 2000 the Federal Funds rate was 7.03% and
by July 30, 2003 it was 1.03%, a drop of six points or 85.7%. The
swing from March 2000 was probably wider, but the data older than
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Subject: Re: Hey WaMu
Could you simplify all this for me koi....wayyyyyyyyyy toooooooo
muuuuuuuuch reading...what are you trying to say in not so many words?

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Subject: JPM Blame WaMu for not dressing up enough that cost the rape ? The most famous mole in the decade from JPM -Plan by JPM Dimon
The most famous mole in the decade from JPM - The Lawsue discovery
will tell us more soon.
http://finance.google.com/group/google.finance.611408/messages?hl=en&...

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Sure , we all see that blame on WaMu leadership paid artical by JPM.
..... The most famous mole plant by JPM Dimon - Rotella did a good
job , didn't he ?

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Subject: Re: Hey ! Koi suckyfucky his pet poodle, haaaaahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
dumbass

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WaMu win Justice will send BAC to $30 - 40

So based on the wamu scandal you think bac is going to 30 or 40?

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Subject: Godzilla sent to take out Koi
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y9RU3IprFs

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Subject: Re: Godzilla ( Shila Bair's pet) sent to take out Koi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtIJC3AHnkE&feature=related

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 FDIC and JPM out of money , start robbing investors , tax payers and
bond holders' money.
This is what the terrors like to see. 1% of Greedy American attacking
99% general public American..... an evil from within.
 but , whatchout behind  you woody wood.
The Daily News Feb 4, 2009
"The former vice president warned that there's a "high probability"
the U.S. will get nuked by terrorists during President Obama's watch.

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So again......

WaMu win Justice will send BAC to $30 - 40

So based on the wamu scandal you think bac is going to 30 or 40?

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No it would effect jpm -ive, and the market, too.

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And base on this :
As Bernard Madoff passes time as inmate No. 61727-054 in the
Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan, questions about
his giant scheme continue to dog investigators and the public. Among
them is the curious relationship Madoff had with his bank, JPMorgan
Chase.

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Wall Street’s Latest Downfall: Madoff Charged with Fraud

Madoff never used his asset-management money to trade securities,
court documents show. Instead, he largely kept it in his Chase account
for years. Though Chase bankers never raised a red flag, another arm
of Chase did have suspicions about Madoff, and that raises questions.
(See pictures of the demise of Bernard Madoff.)

The Chase account, Madoff said in court in mid-March, was used to
shuttle money back and forth between his U.S. and London operations,
to make it appear he was executing trades in European markets, as he
told federal regulators. Madoff made no trades at all with his Chase
account, but rather just collected investor monies, wrote checks to
investors, and took money for himself. In court, Madoff pleaded guilty
to 11 counts of fraud, from wire transfer to money-laundering.

One puzzler for money chasers in Madoff's $65 billion Ponzi is why the
multibillion-dollar bank account he kept at Chase never came under
suspicion by internal bank compliance systems or managers in charge of
Madoff's account. (Watch TIME's video about Madoff's trial.)

When it comes to technology that scans for fraud, today's detection
systems are largely focused on identity theft, hackers and account
anomalies, according to Don Jackson, director of threat intelligence
for Atlanta-based SecureWorks, information-security experts on
financial cyberthreat. "The problem with financial-fraud technology is
that it's only as good as how it's set up," Jackson says. "If it's set
up for a high-volume and multiple-wire-transfers account, then it
won't reveal anything strange when there's lots of activity, like
Madoff's account. The only way to stop this kind of fraud is for the
bank to know its client better and to report things that might be
suspicious. It really comes down to human control."

One thing that should have raised suspicions is that the bank's review
of its own investments caused it to pull $250 million from a Madoff
feeder fund, Fairfield Greenwich, just months before Madoff was
arrested. Chase took this action because it became "concerned about
the lack of transparency," and its due diligence "raised doubts" about
Madoff's operation.

The notion a bank can be concerned about investments with Madoff and
then be unconcerned by the same man's vast sums of cash flowing in and
out of the same bank has experts and lawyers still shaking their
heads. Others see it as a classic breakdown between technology and the
human factor.

One lawyer, Howard Kleinhendler, of Wachtel & Masyr LLP, is following
the money trail and believes Madoff's Chase account was "suspicious"
and should have been shut down the moment the bank pulled its funds
from Fairfield Greenwich. Kleinhendler represents a dozen Madoff
victims. (Read "Madoff Victims Look for Ways to Recover Their Money.")

Moreover, Kleinhendler believes Chase abruptly pulled its $250 million
in August, when, he says, "it learned from Bear Stearns executives
that Madoff's investments were phony." JPMorgan Chase acquired Bear
Stearns in March 2008. "Bear Stearns had done deals with Madoff. They
were on boards together," Kleinhendler says, and therefore, he posits,
perhaps executives at Bear knew Madoff's business was fishy and tipped
the bank off.

Chase asserts that its withdrawal was normal procedure. The bank
withdrew the $250 million when it "became concerned about the lack of
transparency to some questions we posed as part of our review," said
Chase spokeswoman Kristin Lemkau in a January 2008 New York Times
article. A Chase spokesman did not comment further. Fairfield had no
comment.

The International Money Laundering Abatement and Financial Anti-
Terrorism Act of 2001 makes it illegal for a bank to accept funds it
knows, or has reason to believe, were derived from fraud. In addition,
it's obliged to report its suspicions to authorities. A tangle of
federal and state agencies could investigate such potential banking
duplicity, but for national banks like JPMorgan Chase the first
overseer is the Department of the Treasury's Office of the Comptroller
of Currency. OCC examiners conduct on-site reviews of national banks
and provide supervision of bank operations. For OCC to investigate, it
must first get a Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) from the Financial
Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), also part of Treasury. But for
FinCEN to act, it must receive a confidential SAR from a bank. No
report, no investigation. In the case of JPMorgan Chase, SARs are
issued by the director of global anti-money-laundering, William
Langford. Langford was not available for comment. Spokesmen for both
OCC and FinCEN could not comment.

To a nonbanker, what quickly becomes apparent is that the elaborate
and formal process for banks' reporting suspicious characters makes it
quite possible that a quiet, close-to-the-vest player like Madoff who
is not part of any global crime syndicate could operate comfortably
for a long time and have a happy bank as his unwitting accomplice.
Perhaps in this new push to reform bank practices, that process is
worth revisiting.

Robert Chew is a former investor with Madoff via a feeder fund. He
lives in Colorado.

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Angry WAMU bagholders make grassroots protests on social networking
site:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8kpUPlLa58&NR=1

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Subject: Re: Hey ! Koi suckyfucky his pet poodle, haaaaahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Koi so angry make suckyfucky long time

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Subject: Tell Us How You Really Feel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!
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uhm.

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From: Woody Woodpeck <dothea...@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 17:55:57 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Re: Tell Us How You Really Feel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!
haaaaaahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

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From: Woody Woodpeck <dothea...@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 17:58:06 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Re: Tell Us How You Really Feel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_fUmx-HI0Q

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From: Kerry <kerryrei...@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 18:36:23 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Re: Tell Us How You Really Feel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!
What the H? Are they doing that bc of the light?

On Jul 4, 8:58 pm, Woody Woodpeck <dothea...@gmail.com> wrote: