Still Banking on Banks

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With financial institutions looking awfully shaky, Americans could scarcely be blamed for developing a vivid fear of banks. Judging by a Rasmussen Reports poll fielded earlier this week, a majority of them haven’t done so yet.

After warming respondents up with a couple of questions about the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the survey asked them how worried they are that the money they have in the bank “will be lost in a bank failure.” Even in this uncheery context, just 12 percent said they’re “very worried,” with another 25 percent saying they’re “somewhat worried.”

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