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- <text id=91TT1833>
- <title>
- Aug. 19, 1991: American Notes:Banking
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Aug. 19, 1991 Hostages:Why Now? Who's Next?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 23
- American Notes
- BANKING
- Bailout Boss Bails Out
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Not many jobs could have been as exciting--or stressful--as overseeing the turbulent banking industry for the past six
- years. Since he became chairman of the Federal Deposit
- Insurance Corporation in 1985, William Seidman has seen more
- than 1,000 U.S. banks fail, and the number of institutions on
- the brink continues to grow. The FDIC, which guarantees the
- nation's bank deposits, has had to pay out more than $24 billion
- during Seidman's tenure and is running low on reserves. Congress
- is working on legislation to replenish the funds. No wonder
- Seidman, 70, has decided to step down when his term ends in
- October.
- </p>
- <p> Although Congress valued his blunt appraisal of the
- severity of the banking crisis and his suggestions for reform,
- Seidman often rankled members of the Bush Administration. He was
- criticized by some for moving too slowly as head of the
- Resolution Trust Corporation, the government agency charged with
- managing and selling off foreclosed properties in the wake of
- the savings-and-loan mess. The likely candidate to succeed him
- at the FDIC: Federal Reserve director of banking supervision
- William Taylor.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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