2023 Banking Crisis: US By the Numbers, 6-Month Update

The ‘zombie’ S&Ls spent the 1980s gambling for resurrection, using funds from depositors attracted by high interest rates and by deposit insurance to taking risks that blew up when interest rates rose again in 1989. The ultimate cost to taxpayers was much higher than it would have been if insolvencies had been addressed in 1981. […]

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