[jiggyboy]

Like a cheap suit, as usual.

BTW my dim recollection was off by about 50%. Today's WSJ puts losses from the S&L crisis at $189B.

[Toddsterpatriot]

Like a cheap suit, as usual.

You're not like a cheap suit.

BTW my dim recollection was off by about 50%

No, your dim recollection was pretty close.

Today's WSJ puts losses from the S&L crisis at $189B.

Thanks for the link, but I don't see the $189B figure in there.

[Toddsterpatriot]

Page 8, PDF file

As of December 31, 1999, the thrift crisis had cost taxpayers approximately $124 billion and the thrift industry another $29 billion, for an estimated total loss of $153 billion. The losses were higher than those predicted in the late 1980s, when the RTC was established, but below those forecasted during the early to mid-1990s, at the height of the crisis.