Word: commerciales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the problems in commercial banking are serious, the situation in the savings and loan industry is an outright disaster. At least 500 of the more than 3,000 S and Ls are insolvent: their liabilities exceed their assets. In 1987 alone, the Government closed 17 insolvent S and Ls...
Though not as sick as the S and L business, the commercial-banking industry has major difficulties all its own. Chief among them is the seemingly never ending saga of Third World debt. The ten largest banks have more than $50 billion on loan to developing countries. This sum amounts...
But as banks pull money out of Latin America, they are making other loans that could be equally risky. Though real estate loans helped get the S and L industry in trouble, they are now the fastest-growing segment of commercial- bank portfolios. For the first quarter of this year...
Banks have been virtually forced to make riskier loans because they have lost some of their best customers. Blue-chip corporations, which used to borrow from commercial banks, now increasingly raise money by issuing securities through investment banks. But the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 bars commercial banks from underwriting...
Such selective cutting, however, which allowed forests to regenerate species that had no commercial value as well as the highly prized Douglas fir, seemed too inefficient to the Government foresters. Now, perhaps too late, research has shown that clear-cuts tend to break an important ecological chain: they destroy the...