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A deep slump could inflict heavy damage on overleveraged companies and troubled banks whose books are already filled with junk bonds and sour real estate loans. According to Veribanc, a Massachusetts-based firm that rates banks and S&Ls, bad loans at U.S. banks rose a sharp 7.5%, to $48.6...
The cost of the S&L bailout seems to keep on rising uncontrollably. Since the President signed the cleanup law amid loud fanfare exactly one year ago, the price tag has grown from a White House projection of $166 billion over 10 years to what some experts now fear could...
The bailout's woes were glaringly evident last week, when the Administration notified Congress that $100 billion will be needed by October to keep the program from running out of cash. The news angered Administration critics who were stunned by the size of the request. The $100 billion installment includes...
Under attack for liquidating its holdings too slowly, which increases the need for cash infusions, the RTC has begun to speed up the pace. Last week Seidman announced the details of a "fall inventory-reduction sale," in which the agency will unload shuttered thrifts and seized assets by the end...
Japanese money is invested everywhere, from Tokyo skyscrapers to RJR Nabisco junk bonds to shares in Britain's newly privatized water companies. The scope of the Japanese surge abroad has been breathtaking. In 1984 Japanese banks held a little more than 20% of international banking assets, meaning the sum of...