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10.23.09 10:28 PM EDT By cwalters
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“More banks have failed in 2009 than the rest of the decade combined,” writes Ariel Nelson at CNBC. Today, Partners Bank in Naples, Florida closed its doors, making it the 100th bank to fail this year. Click the link to see a map of where bank failures have happened the most over the past 10 months.
“100th Bank Failure of the Year” [CNBC]
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