Chapter 13 indicated that banks, like all other businesses, sometimes fail due to bad management or unexpectedly bad performance of certain key industries where a bank has committed many loans. To see the recent experience of failed banks in the United States, see this page, which provides access to information on banks that have recently failed. First, select the most recent year displayed and then click on "Produce Report" to see a listing of banks that failed in that year.

Questions

1. What year are your data for and how many banks failed in that year?
2. List the states where failures occurred. Do any states seem to have particularly high numbers of failures or are the failures spread across various states?
3. What is the largest deposit size and what bank is this?
4. What is the smallest deposit size and what bank is this?
5. Considering that the largest banks in the world have deposits valued in the hundreds of billions of dollars, do the failed banks appear to be large or small banks?