Comparing Bank Failures, Then and Now, in Current Dollars

While there is lots of talk about U.S. bank failures, and about how far more banks failed during the S&L crisis of the 1980s than have failed so far during the credit crisis, there is another way of looking at things. What about if you compare the assets/depositors of the failed banks, then and now? The result is very different, as this graph from Calculated Risk shows:

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