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  2. Savings and loan crisis - Wikipedia

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    Vernon Savings and Loan (Dallas, TX), led by Don Dixon, which on resolution had 94 percent of loans non-performing; and; Columbia Savings and Loan (Beverly Hills, CA), led by Thomas Spiegel, was closed in January 1991 at the cost of $3.25 billion. [87] Especially publicized was the insolvency of Lincoln Savings and Loan Association, led by ...

  3. Gibraltar Savings Association - Wikipedia

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    Gibraltar Savings Association was a Houston, Texas based savings and loan. Its failure in 1988 and resolution was one of the most expensive in the savings and loan crisis at an estimated cost of $2.875 billion.

  4. Today's Financial Meltdown Vs. the 1990s S&L Crisis: Which ...

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    While most of us were alive 20 years ago, peoples' memories of the savings and loan crisis of the early 1990s have faded. But more than 1,000 so-called savings & loans -- banks specifically set up ...

  5. Charles Hurwitz - Wikipedia

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    Charles Edwin Hurwitz (born 1940) is an American businessman and financier known for his role in the 1980s savings and loan crisis, and his takeover of Pacific Lumber Company, a logging company active in Humboldt County, California.

  6. How Texas came to rival New York as a finance hub - AOL

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    Local lenders thrived alongside the oil and gas industry in the 1970s and early 1980s, but Texas then became one of the hardest-hit areas in the country during the savings and loan crisis that ...

  7. First Republic Bank Corporation - Wikipedia

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    In the late 1980s Savings and Loan crisis, Texas in general and Republic's loan portfolio in particular were hit hard by real estate devaluation. In efforts to remain solvent, RepublicBank Corporation in 1987 merged with InterFirst Bank Corporation, also based in Dallas, creating First RepublicBank Corporation.

  8. Resolution Trust Corporation - Wikipedia

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    RTC literature in the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation history exhibit. The Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC) was a U.S. government-owned asset management company first run by Lewis William Seidman and charged with liquidating assets, primarily real estate-related assets such as mortgage loans, that had been assets of savings and loan associations (S&Ls) declared insolvent by the Office ...

  9. How Banking Has Changed Since the Year You Were Born - AOL

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    1980s: Savings and Loan Crisis. During the 1980s and into the 1990s, over 1,000 savings and loan associations failed. These associations allow people to open savings accounts and in turn, lend the ...