[open-economics] Credit union failures

Wed Nov 14 18:15:33 UTC 2012

Hi John,

I think it would be great if you would add these credit unions to the
failed bank list. They should count as banks as we also include other
non-ordinary banks like Cajas and regional banks.

Best,
Anders

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 6:48 PM, John Levin <john at anterotesis.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> And just as the call ended, I remembered there was a question about the
> failed banks project I wanted to ask.
>
> I recently came across this report:
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2012/nov/02/north-yorkshire-credit-union-collapse
> on Credit Unions collapsing. Although focused on N Yorks, it mentions three
> other CUs that have failed.
> Do we want to add credit unions to the list of failures? Do they count as
> 'banks' for our purposes?
>
> John
>
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