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Community Financial Institutions: Parking Lot for the Benjamins

Jeff For Banks

This has kept investment options for community financial institutions at historic lows. Community FIs are experiencing similar activity from their Main Street customers. From December 31, 2009 through June 30, 2011, deposits for all FDIC insured depositories increased 5.84%. Low loan demand further exasperates the challenge.

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Predicting the Next Banking Crisis Is a Fool’s Game. Not Learning From the Last One: Equally Foolish

Jeff For Banks

By comparison, non-high-tech industries lost 689,000 jobs between 2001 and 2002 but recovered the lost jobs by 2004. Between 1995 and its peak in March 2000, the Nasdaq Composite stock market index rose 800%, only to fall 740% from its peak by October 2002, giving up all its gains during the bubble. High-tech employment fell from 12.1

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The Mother List of All Banking Books

Jeff For Banks

Inside the FDIC: Thirty Years of Bank Failures, Bailouts, and Regulatory Battles 2015 Louis D. Bye Bye Banks: The End of Community Banking as an Engine of Economic Growth 2010 Robert H. Bonadio Bonadio, Felice A. Giannini: Banker of America 1994 Richard X. Bove Bove, Richard X. Bovenzi Bovenzi, John F. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

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