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Thrifts are locally-based financial institutions that specialise in taking investments and issuing mortgages. Zombie thrifts were a phenomenon of the 1980-90's S&L crisis where thrifts with a net worth of less than zero continued to trade because their ability to repay their debts was assured by government guarantees. The thrift is dead but it keeps biting taxpayers.

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