Top 10 Local Stories: Looking back at the year we went for broke (The Source Weekly)

Bank Bust The fallout from the national housing market implosion was the financial story of the year. Billions of dollars in bailout money for big banks and foreclosure notes for families with leaking adjustable rate mortgages. And the story dominated headlines, certainly for the first half of the year. Closer to home, local banks, many of whom were heavily leveraged in Bend’s volatile housing …

banks3q (Seattle Times)

To create a fair sample of the nearly 100 banks and thrifts headquartered in Washington state, The Seattle Times first chose all banks whose parent companies are publicly traded and all banks that have received money through the federal Troubled Asset Relief Program.