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

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    Savings and loan association definition. ... Many closed their doors during the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s and 1990s: Inflation and competition from other lenders made some insolvent ...

  6. 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.

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

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    Savings and loan associations are financial institutions similar to banks that specialize in providing mortgage loans to home buyers, making loans from deposits usually gathered from the local ...

  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. Savings and loan association - Wikipedia

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    A savings and loan association (S&L), or thrift institution, is a financial institution that specializes in accepting savings deposits and making mortgage and other loans. . While the terms "S&L" and "thrift" are mainly used in the United States, similar institutions in the United Kingdom, Ireland and some Commonwealth countries include building societies and trustee savings b