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Is There A Bigger Government Rescue in the Works?
Back in the 1980s, the U.S. set up the Reconstruction Trust Corp. and purged bad S&Ls at a cost of $85 billion. No one seems to know how much would it cost to revive the RTC concept to clean up a much bigger financial crisis today.
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