Financial Crisis Management: Four Financial Crises in the 1980s

GGD-97-96 Published: May 01, 1997. Publicly Released: May 01, 1997.

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GAO reviewed how federal financial agencies with responsibilities for financial institutions and markets recognized, contained, and eventually resolved four financial crises that occurred in the 1980's.

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