FDIC Discloses That It’s BROKE.

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In a stunning disclosure, the FDIC has stated that it expects the Deposit Insurance Fund to be negative as of September 30. Tomorrow, depositors have no insurance– the capital of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is gone. Banks are failing all over and the FDIC cash burn-rate is ridiculous. Speed up the printing presses, Ben and Timmy– because the FDIC also disclosed that:

Staff has also projected the Fund balance and reserve ratio for each quarter over the next several years using the most recently available information on expected failures and loss rates and statistical analyses of trends in CAMELS downgrades, failure rates and loss rates. Staff projects that, over the period 2009 through 2013, the Fund could incur approximately $100 billion in failure costs. Staff projects that most of these costs will occur in 2009 and 2010. Approximately $25 billion of the $100 billion amount has already been incurred in failure costs so far in 2009. Staff projects that most of these costs will occur in 2009 and 2010.

Epically miserable. The fab Tyler Durden at Zerohedge puts it this way:

First Mary Schapiro has failed at her task of “regulating” anything on Wall Street, and now Sheila Bair presides over a newly insolvent institution. Chalk one up to Washington’s success at “containing” the crisis. Zero Hedge wishes Ms. Bair all the luck in the world in returning the DIF to its statutory minimum requirement of 1.15% of all insured deposits (a shortfall of a mere hundred billion or so). Maybe she can convert the FDIC to a REIT and have Merrill Lynch do a concurrent IPO and follow-on offering (while Goldman raises it to a “Conviction Buy”, which incorporates the firm’s expectations for 10% GDP growth in 2010 coupled with projections for $1,000 per barrel of crude)?

Touche.
You can see the whole trainwreck here.

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