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- <text id=91TT1266>
- <title>
- June 10, 1991: Business Notes:Banking
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- June 10, 1991 Evil
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 47
- Business Notes
- BANKING
- The Biggest Bailout
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- <p> Goldome: the name was as good as gold through most of the
- '80s, as the savings bank based in Buffalo rapidly amassed a menu
- of failing savings banks around the state, with the blessings of
- business-first federal regulators. But as the go-go years
- went-went, Goldome turned to dross. The bank inched back toward
- profitability during 1989, only to face stricter capital
- requirements from a savvier set of feds in the wake of the S&L
- crisis. The new rules of the game finally proved Goldome's
- undoing last week.
- </p>
- <p> As word went around Buffalo that government representatives
- were booking local hotel rooms while Goldome honchos were emptying
- their offices, Washington made it official: the Federal Deposit
- Insurance Corporation was seizing Goldome in the biggest bailout
- of a savings bank in U.S. history. The spoils will go to Buffalo's
- First Empire State and Albany's KeyCorp, which sought the smallest
- amount of federal aid; the two offered a plan that could cut costs
- by canning workers. But Goldome's rescue may still cost U.S.
- taxpayers up to $1 billion.
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