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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 ...
In 1984, Gibraltar Savings was acquired by First Texas Financial Corporation. FTFC, which had acquired First Texas Savings Association in Dallas in 1982, was controlled by nursing home developer J. Livingston Kosberg. [3] An investor in FTFC was lawyer and political power broker Robert S. Strauss, who owned 10% of the stock. His son, real ...
American Savings and Loan; ... Farmers and Merchants Bank of Los Angeles; ... Greenwich Savings Bank; Guaranty Bank (Texas) Guaranty Bank (Wisconsin) ...
The savings and loan crisis of the 1980s had many causes, and like most financial meltdowns, it also had many attempted solutions. One of the earliest attempted solutions for this bubbling The ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
But more than 1,000 so-called savings & loans -- banks specifically set up to lend out their deposits to people buying houses -- failed in the late 1980s and early 1990s due to a change in ...