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- <title>
- Mar. 27, 1989: Business Notes:Thrifts
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Mar. 27, 1989 Is Anything Safe?
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 75
- Business Notes
- THRIFTS
- Springing a Savings Leak
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- <p> President Bush's plan to bail out the savings and loan
- industry is getting little help from depositors, who are
- withdrawing their money at an inconvenient moment. The Federal
- Home Loan Bank Board, which regulates S & Ls, said last week
- that in January thrifts suffered a record monthly net-deposit
- outflow of $10.7 billion (total remaining S & L deposits: $964
- billion). Because Bush's proposed $200 billion bailout package
- is to be financed in part from the thrifts' federal insurance
- premiums, which are based on the size of their deposits, the
- withdrawals could reduce that source of Government income and
- increase the share borne by taxpayers. One reason for the heavy
- S & L outflow is that consumers have been moving their money to
- money-market funds, which in January were paying depositors an
- average of 1 1/4 percentage points more than thrifts.
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- </body></article>
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