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Saving the Savings and Loan: The U.S. Thrift Industry and the Texas Experience, 1950-1988
Saving the Savings and Loan The US Thrift Industry and the Texas Experience 19501988 Author:M. Manfred Fabritius, William Borges This work provides an in-depth examination of the history of the U.S. thrift industry from 1950 to the present, with particular emphasis on the leading role played by Texas in transforming savings and loans (S&Ls) from financiers of home mortgages to the multipurpose financial entities they are today. The purpose of the book is not only to chron... more »icle the response of the national S&L industry to various laws, economic conditions, and changing times, but also to demonstrate how, in Texas, state-chartered S&Ls provided a model of reform which reshaped not only the Texas S&L industry but the national industry as well.« less