savings-and-loan

The government would write down the toxic assets of banks taken into receivership — recognizing reality — and transfer those assets to a separate government entity, which would attempt to salvage whatever value is possible for the taxpayer (as the Resolution Trust Corporation did after the savings-and-loan debacle of the 1980s).

The Quiet Coup 2009

I've been in the real estate business in California for over 50 years and have been through many cycles including the 1990-93 meltdown of real estate values triggered by the savings-and-loan crisis and I've suffered the consequences.

Foreclosure Is the Right Way Forward 2011

The 860 troubled banks is the highest number since 1993, during the savings-and-loan crisis.

3 More Banks Shuttered, 14 Failures Already In 2011 AP 2011

It was the most in a year since the savings-and-loan crisis two decades ago.

3 More Banks Shuttered, 14 Failures Already In 2011 AP 2011

The 860 troubled banks is the highest number since 1993, during the savings-and-loan crisis.

3 More Banks Shuttered, 14 Failures Already In 2011 AP 2011

The 157 banks that failed for all of last year was the highest number since the savings-and-loan crisis ended in 1992, although the total assets at fallen banks fell last year compared with the one before.

Regulators Close 14th Georgia Bank This Year Joan E. Solsman 2011

After the savings-and-loan crisis, the housing market didn't recover until 1995, and that was a minor banking crisis compared to the most recent collapse.

Too Big to Fail? Perhaps, But Not in Your Portfolio David Weidner 2011

FBOP was one of the nation's largest privately held bank-holding companies, growing through a string of acquisitions dating back to the savings-and-loan crisis of the 1990s.

Small Lenders Banked on Fed David Benoit 2011

The number of banks that failed last year, 157, was the highest since the savings-and-loan crisis ended in 1992, although the total assets at 2010's fallen banks were much smaller than the total in 2009.

Regulators Shut Two More Banks Joan E. Solsman 2011

It was the most in a year since the savings-and-loan crisis two decades ago.

3 More Banks Shuttered, 14 Failures Already In 2011 AP 2011