Tuesday, September 9, 2008

WaMu CEO Gets The Boot



A big shake up at Washington Mutual, the biggest U.S. Savings & Loan, as the CEO of 18 years is fired after he steered bank into investing into subprime loans with $6.3 billion in losses causing bank stock to plummet 90% over the last 12 months. Here's the link to the story:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2921246041637665947&ei=V0vGSIOvFov8-gGr0qjZDg&q=washington+mutual&vt=lf

The bank is now also under scrutiny by federal regulators. CEO Kerry Killinger caused bank to skyrocket from a small bank in 1992 to the nationally prominent lender it has become. Here is a link to this story:

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