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1.
1985
The failure of Home State Savings Bank marks the start of the savings-and-loan crisis, in which 747 banks would go bellyup.
2.
1986
Wall Street trader Ivan Boesky is convicted of insider trading, marking the first such financial prosecution in U.S. history.
3.
1986
U.S. attorney Rudolph Giuliani makes a name for himself by prosecuting corporate crime cases against some major Wall Street bigwigs.
4.
1987
Executives from 
Goldman Sachs and Kidder Peabody are hauled before cameras in cuffs in a Giuliani-launched insider-trading investigation.
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Goldman Sachs and Kidder Peabody are hauled before cameras in cuffs in a Giuliani-launched insider-trading investigation. 
5.
1987
Tom Wolfe’s The Bonfire of the Vanities, a novel about a bond trader and his milieu, is published. “Masters of the Universe” enters the lexicon.
