Jul 12 2009

S&L Crisis Part Two: Are We Repeating Mistakes from the S&L Crisis? Accounting Sleight of Hand and Mortgage Fraud.

During the savings and loan crisis (S&L crisis) of the 1980s and 1990s a total of 745 thrifts failed.  If we look at the history of the crisis, total losses were largely saddled to the American taxpayer.  It is estimated that some $160.1 billion was the total bill for the crisis with roughly $124.6 billion […]

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