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Savings and loan crisis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The savings and loan crisis of the 1980s and 1990s (commonly referred to as the S&L crisis ) was the failure of 745 savings and loan associations (S&Ls aka thrifts ). A Savings and Loan is a fin...
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Keating Five - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Image:AlanCranston.jpg| Alan Cranston (D-CA) Image:D000186.jpg| Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ) Image:Glenn.gif| John Glenn (D-OH) Image:McCainPortrait.jpeg| John McCain (R-AZ) Image:Don Riegle, Jr.jpg| Donal...
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In February 1989, newly elected President George Bush announced to the American public that he would set up a programme to rescue the stricken Savings & Loan industry. ... The S&L industry was an unlikely candidate for the nation's largest-ever financial scandal. At its roots it was a conservative residential mortgage...
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The Savings and Loan Industry and What Doomed it ... The Savings and Loan Gold Rush and Public Accounting ... An Enron Postscript and the Next Possible Scandal...
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But to a large degree, the savings and loan scandal was simply business as usual. What was unusual about it was not that it happened, or who was involved, but that it was so blatant and coarse a criminal act that exposure became inevitable.
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The National Mortgage News, the Orange County Register, the Mesa (Arizona) Tribune, Regardie's magazine: These are some of the unlikely press heroes of the Charles Keating-Lincoln Savings and Loan scandal.
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