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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Eric Dash / The Bulletin
October 2, 2008
When banks were flush, most of them paid nothing for a golden government guarantee. Bank failures were so rare that, for a decade, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. waived most of the premiums it normally would have collected to insure deposits.
But now the government plans to raise the amount....