According to FDIC data, 25 commercial banks failed in 2008, out of 7,146 banks in the U.S. The failed banks represent about 1/3 of 1% of all banks, meaning that 99.65% of banks survived the 2008 recession. The chart above displays annual bank failures back to 1970 (data here), showing the S&L crisis (shaded) when almost 3,000 U.S. banks failed.
Before we make comparisons to the Great Depression, we might want to first compare today's financial troubles to the S&L crisis of the 1980s and 1990s, when almost 3,000 banks failed.
http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2009/01/9965-of-commercial-banks-survived-2008.html
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