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    By Lita Epstein

    | 11:00AM 8/14/2009
    Since the beginning of 2009, 72 banks have failed; based on an analysis done by Bloomberg, 150 more are at risk. The culprit is all-too-familiar: according to the Bloomberg study, these endangered banks are in trouble because five percent or more of the loans they hold are nonperforming. That means...