One harbinger of the current economic crisis was the second largest bank failure in U.S. history -- the collapse of IndyMac Bank. Its failure took Wall Street and many customers by surprise; the institution had not been on the FDIC's list of troubled banks. In a scene reminiscent of the 1930s bank runs, (below) IndyMac customers lined up to cash out deposits on July 18, 2008.
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