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  2. Bank of America - Wikipedia

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    The Bank of America Corporation (often abbreviated BofA or BoA) is an American multinational investment bank and financial services holding company headquartered at the Bank of America Corporate Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, with investment banking and auxiliary headquarters in Manhattan. The bank was founded by the merger of NationsBank ...

  3. List of bank mergers in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Berks County Trust Company. Wyomissing Valley Bank, Temple State Bank, Mount Penn Trust Company, Reamstown Exchange Bank, Schuylkill Trust Company. Berks County Trust Company (1964 as American Bank and Trust Co or American Bankcorp) Wells Fargo. 1964. National Bank of Commerce. Texas National Bank.

  4. Early 1980s recession - Wikipedia

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    Early 1980s recession. The early 1980s recession was a severe economic recession that affected much of the world between approximately the start of 1980 and 1982. [1] [2] [3] It is widely considered to have been the most severe recession since World War II until the 2007–2008 financial crisis. [4] [5] [3]

  5. Savings and loan crisis - Wikipedia

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    Savings and loan crisis. The savings and loan crisis of the 1980s and 1990s (commonly dubbed the S&L crisis) was the failure of 32% (1,043 of the 3,234) of savings and loan associations (S&Ls) in the United States from 1986 to 1995. An S&L or "thrift" is a financial institution that accepts savings deposits and makes mortgage, car and other ...

  6. List of largest banks in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Simmons Bank: Pine Bluff, Arkansas: $27 $2.48 SFNC 81 United Community Bank: Greenville, South Carolina: $27 $3.48 UCBI 82 BCI Financial Group: Miami, Florida: $26 N/A N/A 83 Ameris Bancorp: Atlanta, Georgia: $25 $3.66 ABCB 84 First Hawaiian Bank: Honolulu, Hawaii: $25 $2.92 FHB 85 Bank of Hawaii: Honolulu, Hawaii: $24 $2.88 BOH 86 Cathay Bank ...

  7. North Hollywood shootout - Wikipedia

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    The North Hollywood shootout, also known as the Battle of North Hollywood, [2] was a confrontation between two heavily armed and armored bank robbers, Larry Phillips Jr. and Emil Mătăsăreanu, and police officers in the North Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles on February 28, 1997. Both robbers were killed, twelve police officers and eight ...

  8. Latin American debt crisis - Wikipedia

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    Mexico Crude oil prices from 1861 to 2011. The Latin American debt crisis (Spanish: Crisis de la deuda latinoamericana; Portuguese: Crise da dívida latino-americana) was a financial crisis that originated in the early 1980s (and for some countries starting in the 1970s), often known as La Década Perdida (The Lost Decade), when Latin American countries reached a point where their foreign debt ...

  9. History of the United States (1980–1991) - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. The history of the United States from 1980 until 1991 includes the last year of the Jimmy Carter presidency, eight years of the Ronald Reagan administration, and the first three years of the George H. W. Bush presidency, up to the collapse of the Soviet Union. Plagued by the Iran hostage crisis, runaway inflation, and mounting domestic ...