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<text id=89TT0808>
<title>
Mar. 27, 1989: Business Notes:Thrifts
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Mar. 27, 1989 Is Anything Safe?
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
BUSINESS, Page 75
Business Notes
THRIFTS
Springing a Savings Leak
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<p> President Bush's plan to bail out the savings and loan
industry is getting little help from depositors, who are
withdrawing their money at an inconvenient moment. The Federal
Home Loan Bank Board, which regulates S & Ls, said last week
that in January thrifts suffered a record monthly net-deposit
outflow of $10.7 billion (total remaining S & L deposits: $964
billion). Because Bush's proposed $200 billion bailout package
is to be financed in part from the thrifts' federal insurance
premiums, which are based on the size of their deposits, the
withdrawals could reduce that source of Government income and
increase the share borne by taxpayers. One reason for the heavy
S & L outflow is that consumers have been moving their money to
money-market funds, which in January were paying depositors an
average of 1 1/4 percentage points more than thrifts.
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