The FDIC: A History of Confidence and Stability

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• A Message from the Chairman
• A History of Confidence and Stability
• Background and Creation
• Note Issued by Farmer's Exchange Bank of Gloucester
• Early Panics and Bank Runs
• Panic of 1893
• State Deposit Insurance
• An Insured Bank Note
• Deposit Insurance Proposals
• The Panic of 1907
• Rising Bank Failures
• The Banking Crisis of the Great Depression
• Addressing Worried Depositors
• The Bank Holiday
• Cost to Depositors
• Creation of the FDIC
• FDR Signing 1933 Bank Act
• Entrance Examinations
• Presidential Congratulations
• The Earliest Years
• First Year Statistics
• An Historic Moment
• Working with Depositors
• Building Confidence
• Certified Membership

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