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  2. Keating Five - Wikipedia

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    The U.S. savings and loan crisis of the 1980s and early 1990s was the failure of 747 savings and loan associations in the United States. The ultimate cost of the crisis is estimated to have totaled around $160.1 billion, about $124.6 billion of which was directly paid for by the U.S. federal government. [1]

  3. Savings and loan crisis - Wikipedia

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    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 personal loans to individual ...

  4. List of banks acquired or bankrupted during the Great Recession

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    This is a list of notable financial institutions worldwide that were severely affected by the Great Recession centered in 2007–2009. The list includes banks (including savings and loan associations, commercial banks and investment banks), building societies and insurance companies that were:

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

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    A savings and loan association (S&L) is a financial institution that provides banking and home lending services. It is somewhat comparable to a bank or credit union (especially the latter) but has ...

  6. 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

  7. History of banking in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The savings and loan crisis of the 1980s and 1990s was the failure of 747 out of the 3,234 savings and loan associations in the United States. "As of December 31, 1995, RTC estimated that the total cost for resolving the 747 failed institutions was $87.9 billion."

  8. Passbook loans: Paying to borrow your own money - AOL

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    Also referred to as a share-secured or savings-secured loan, passbook loans allow you to borrow against your own savings. Acting similarly to a secured personal loan, your savings account acts as ...

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

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    Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act. 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 ...