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...other expenses. Moreover, as seized property slowly deteriorates under Government ownership, its market value is ebbing. The RTC's commitment to sell several hundred billion dollars' worth of real estate hangs over the market, depressing prices and even harming the loan portfolios of the remaining 2,600 S&Ls. And since the Government is counting on proceeds from the property sales to offset some of the costs of the bailout, sluggish disposal of the real estate could help push the total cost of the rescue to more than $300 billion during the next 30 years. "The cost of carrying that...
...been in the hands of honest businessmen, but many failed thrifts were ruined by larcenous schemers who took advantage of lax S&L rules and poor supervision during most of the 1980s. Testifying before Congress last week, Seidman said criminal fraud had been discovered in 60% of the S&Ls seized by the Government during the past year, almost triple the rate in commercial bank failures. Some of the wrongdoing may even be traced to the CIA. According to the Houston Post, the intelligence agency had connections with 22 now failed thrifts, whose officers used depositors' funds for loans...
While the huge fine sapped Drexel's strength, the killing stroke was the severe slump in the $200 billion junk-bond market. Several factors -- a rising default rate, a slowing economy and a new federal law requiring S&Ls to dispose of their junk bonds -- conspired to send the prices of such securities plunging to 50% or less of their face value since last fall. Stuck with more than $1 billion in devaluing junk, Drexel's credit rating began sliding, and its banks cut off credit two weeks ago. The parent company, starved for cash, began to siphon money from...
...While S&Ls own 7% of all junk bonds, depositors will be shielded from loss if a thrift runs into trouble because the Government insures deposits up to $100,000. But the junk-bond slump could increase the already enormous taxpayer cost of the Bush Administration's S&L bailout package (anywhere from $160 billion to $300 billion), since the Government will have to sell the securities at a loss...
...simply adding more kids," says the National Head Start Association's Don Bolce, "we could end up like the S&Ls. By functioning on the cheap, we will eventually so severely underfund Head Start's ability to deliver quality care that we will be forced to spend even more to fix the problems shortsightedly created...