After weeks of
strife, the Federal Reserve, the Department of the Treasury, the
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation finally released the results of the "stress
test" they imposed on America's banks. But as Contributing Editor
Tim Cavanaugh writes, the problem is that by trying to map a
diverse collection of institutions, many of them regional banks
whose dynamics differ widely from those of international banks, the
stress test produced a range of interesting yet ultimately
inconclusive statistics.
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