WBAL 11 News At 11 September 13, 2009
stress tests my department ran on the nation's 19 largest banks. this was an effort to determine each bank's fiscal soundness, following last september's $700 billion federal bailout. tonight, i would like to reveal to you, the american people, the results of part two of the stress test, the written exam taken by all 19 banks' ceos last saturday. [ light laughter ] initially, my department had planned to give each bank a numerical grade of 1 to 100, 100 being a perfect score. but then we decided that that might unfairly stigmatize banks who scored low on the tests because they follow...
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