Use "thrifts" in a sentence

1. Congress decided that an inexpensive way-no taxpayer money required-to infuse new capital into the thrifts would be to allow them to sell to the public their shares in the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac)

2. As a result, not long after they went public, many thrifts started to buy back their shares

3. With the financial sector in the midst of a substantial consolidation, the thrifts were all acquired within a few years at a premium to book value

4. Finally, thrifts, whether mutual or shareholder owned, are not ordinarily an exciting business

5. The conversion of the thrifts from mutual to stock corporations was set in motion by regulatory changes that encouraged the thrifts to raise more capital

6. Klarman has also been a buyer of portfolios of properties sold by the Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC), a federal agency created to dispose of the assets of busted thrifts and banks that had come into government hands as part of a giant bail-out

7. Insurance companies, like banks and thrifts, are grounded on portfolios