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Introduction
Banks and savings and loan associations are failing in post-Depression record numbers because of a combination of factors—deregulation, problems in the oil industry and a few crooks. Fortunately, your deposits still seem to be safe. Your tax dollars, however, may be more at risk. Estimates of the cost of bailing out the savings and loan insurance system run as high as $100 billion.
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Overview
Long lines of panicking customers wait to pull their money out of failing banks and crumbling savings and loan associations. Lawmakers in Washington heatedly debate the correct government response to the mounting crisis, while the nation contemplates the haunting specter of a collapsing financial marketplace. The scenes evoke some of the most harrowing images of the Great Depression.
Unfortunately, the time is the 1980s, a decade that has witnessed the largest bank failures in American history and a crisis in the savings and loan industry that analysts are now describing as epidemic in proportion. |
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Jan. 20, 2023 |
The Future of Cryptocurrency |
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Apr. 06, 2018 |
Financial Services Deregulation |
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Sep. 26, 2014 |
Digital Currency |
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Oct. 05, 2012 |
Euro Crisis |
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Jan. 20, 2012 |
Financial Misconduct |
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Jan. 13, 2012 |
‘Occupy’ Movement |
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Oct. 24, 2008 |
Financial Bailout  |
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Sep. 01, 2000 |
The Federal Reserve |
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Jun. 22, 1990 |
S&L Bailout: Assessing the Impact |
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Nov. 04, 1988 |
Behind the S&L Crisis |
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Apr. 26, 1985 |
New Era in Banking |
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Nov. 18, 1983 |
Bankruptcy's Thriving Business |
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Aug. 07, 1981 |
Banking Deregulation |
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Jul. 19, 1974 |
Banking Stability |
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Jul. 17, 1968 |
Banking Innovations |
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May 06, 1964 |
Monetary Policy in Prosperity |
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May 16, 1940 |
Revision of the Securities Acts |
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Feb. 27, 1937 |
Expansion of Branch Banking |
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Sep. 03, 1935 |
The Decline of Commercial Banking |
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Dec. 11, 1934 |
Proposals for a Government-Owned Central Bank |
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Sep. 12, 1934 |
Bank Reserves and Credit Inflation |
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Nov. 27, 1933 |
Bank Credit in Depression and Recovery |
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Aug. 12, 1933 |
Closed Banks and Banking Reform |
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Apr. 04, 1933 |
Unified Control of Banking |
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Apr. 09, 1932 |
The Glass Banking Bill |
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Mar. 24, 1932 |
The Guaranty of Bank Deposits |
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Apr. 17, 1930 |
The International Bank and the Gold Standard |
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Feb. 08, 1930 |
Branch Banking and Chain Banking |
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Apr. 29, 1929 |
Mergers of Banking Institutions |
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Oct. 28, 1927 |
The Federal Reserve Rate Controversy |
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May 21, 1927 |
Labor Banking and Finance Since 1920 |
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Jan. 31, 1924 |
The Northwestern Bank Failures and the Attack on Treasury Savings Certificates |
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Dec. 01, 1923 |
Why State Banks Do Not Join the Federal Reserve System, the Effect on the System and the Issues Involved |
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Nov. 23, 1923 |
Branch Bank Controversy |
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