Inadequate oversight by federal bank supervisors is...
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Inadequate oversight by federal bank supervisors is blamed by the General Accounting Office for failure of banks to adequately write down the value of their Third World loans. The GAO, using secondary market prices such as debt as a guideline, concluded that commercial banks should have written down the $107.6 billion in loans by about $49 billion as of the end of 1987.
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