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I noticed it only seems to go back to around the year 2000. So it seems like there are probably very many missing. Also Florida banks have a fairly large amount of this list. I wonder why.

Anyway, kinda neat. It would be interesting if they included a summary of what the expected cause of the failures were too.

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My guess is that the vast majority of these banks failed due to mortgage backed securities crapping out around 2008-2010

Edit: oops, misread Wikipedia, ignore this comment.

The FDIC website states that the organization was established in 1933[0]

[0] https://www.fdic.gov/about/history/

I’m not sure what the original comment was, but yeah this is related to what I was thinking of. I didn’t notice the first time the site says data only goes back to 2000, and figured there would’ve been some data from the Great Depression.

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