Washington Mutual becomes the biggest bank failure in history

I don’t quite understand the whole economy right now, but all of this talk of banks failing sounds incredibly scary. The New York Times is reporting that Washington Mutual was just seized by the United States Government and sold to JP Morgan Chase. At the time of the sale, Washington Mutual’s total assets were worth an estimated $307 billion (which is to say, WaMu is a $307 billion failure).

Should I be doing anything?

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