Gavin's Miscellany
Personal encyclopedia and learning curriculum119 entries

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Institutions & Policy

Institutions, policy arguments, financial systems, and public decisions whose details are easy to blur.

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  • Great Western Bank to Washington MutualGreat Western Financial was one of the large U.S. savingsandloan/thrift institutions that consolidated during the 1990s. In 1997, Washington Mutual won a takeover battle for Great Western in a transaction valued at roughly $6.6 billion, creating what was then the largest U.S. thrift.
  • Permanent Daylight-Saving-Time DebatesThere are actually two separate policy questions that often get collapsed into “stop changing the clocks”: