The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Division of Research and Statistics has released History of the Eighties--Lessons for the Future. The report is divided into three parts: overview and national issues, sectoral and regional crises, and analysis of supervisory tools. This research report aims to analyze "the complex combination of causes (economic, financial, legislative and regulatory) that led to the extraordinary number of bank failures in the 1980s and early 1990s," and evaluate the "legislative, regulatory and supervisory responses to those failures." The report concludes by enumerating how these experiences might instruct future bank supervisors.