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- <title>
- Mar. 29, 1993: S&L Mess:The End Is Near. At Last.
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Mar. 29, 1993 Yeltsin's Last Stand
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 15
- BUSINESS
- S&L Mess: The End Is Near. At Last. Maybe.
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- <body>
- <p>Clinton asks Congress for $45 billion to finish the cleanup
- begun in 1989
- </p>
- <p> The government has not really been closing failed savings and
- loans, selling their assets and paying off their depositors
- forever. It just seems that way to many members of Congress who
- voted $50 billion for that job in April 1989 and since then have
- had to pony up more and more. Now the Clinton Administration is
- asking for an additional $45 billion, making a total of about
- $200 billion, and swears that will be the last. The figure is
- $11 billion higher than the White House calculated last month;
- Clinton aides insist that the increase reflects only their
- determination to make sure they do not have to go back to
- Congress ever again (though the Congressional Budget Office
- fears they might still be $5 billion short). Congress can blame
- itself for some extra cost. In 1992 it refused to put up any
- more money, so the federal cleanup agency for almost a year has
- been unable to sell off the assets of 83 failed S&Ls it has
- taken over. It can only absorb losses that mount every day that
- Congress dawdles.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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