Independent Banker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

The bad news is the first review, conducted from 2004 to 2006, was a bust. Even though the industry identified several major regulatory burdens, including those posed by the Truth in Lending Act and the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, few substantive regulations were repealed. in Lowell, Mass.;

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Jeff For Banks

OCTOBER 19, 2012

I know I risk sounding like Charles Plosser, but so be it. It seems to me that reducing burdensome regulations and not implementing harsher capital requirements would be more effective alternatives to incentivize lending than pushing all yields toward zero while buying up all of our bonds. The strongest indices have been FHFA, +3.7%

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Jeff For Banks

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Well, if you are NBER, or National Bureau for Economic Research, and you wait fifteen months to declare that the recession was over in June, 2009 (its duration was 19 months), no one will care. Dorothy has been with First Federal of Bucks County since November, 2004. When we needed action in the second quarter, the Fed did not act.

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