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S&L Crisis
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Savings and loan crisis. Financial crisis occurring in the late 1980s to early 1990s where there was a wide-spread failure of over 700 savings and loans institutions across the US. This crisis cost US taxpayers over $100 billion dollars and created a recession and a large budget deficit in the early 1990s.
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