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Just remember, your deposits are insured, so don't panic. Be a little uneasy until you find out more, but don't panic. :)

My biggest frustration is that the whole time the sky has been falling, all the major players have been steadfastly telling us "The sky is NOT FALLING."

I simply don't have time to earn a living, have a life, AND educate myself to the point where I'm really capable of understanding how our financial system works. So I've got to take a lot of things on trust. I trust financial institutions to be stodgy and conservative and slow-moving. I trust government regulation to make sure their executives behave. Right now, I don't trust them, yet I can't function without them. So I'm dependent on people I can't trust. Feels terrible.

True. They get paid to understand the financial system and make sure stuff like this doesn't happen... and they've failed. If I did that badly in my job, I'd be so fired.

Now, if you want a financial institution that is probably less risky, join a credit union. They are member owned, which means they answer to you.

http://www.creditunion.coop/cu_locator/toplist.php

Yes, credit unions RAWK! The whole point of them is that the shareholders are the people with accounts; the financial people ARE keeping the account holders in mind when they make decisions.