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  2. Savings and loan crisis - Wikipedia

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    Subprime mortgage crisis; Cottage Savings Ass'n v. Commissioner, a United States Supreme Court case dealing with the tax consequences of the S&L crisis; United States v. Winstar Corp., a U.S. Supreme Court case that gives a concise but useful history of the crisis and the accounting practices that aggravated that crisis

  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. List of largest bank failures in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Sunbelt Savings Irving: Texas: 1991 $6.0 billion $13 billion Western Savings and Loan: Phoenix: Arizona: 1989 $5.7 billion $14 billion Columbia Savings & Loan Assn. Beverly Hills: California: 1991 $5.4 billion $12 billion Lincoln Savings and Loan Association: Irvine: California: 1989 $4.9 billion $12 billion California National Bank: Los ...

  6. What is a savings and loan association (S&L)? - AOL

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    As a result, a wave of local, federally-chartered savings and loans developed around the U.S. Backed by low-cost government funding, the S&Ls were able to offer long-term home loans at fixed ...

  7. What Is the Savings and Loan Crisis? - AOL

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  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. Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act ...

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    The Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 (FIRREA), is a United States federal law enacted in the wake of the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s. It established the Resolution Trust Corporation to close hundreds of insolvent thrifts and provided funds to pay out insurance to their depositors.