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Time Tried, Panic Tested. The Forgotten Story of the First National Bank of Keystone

Jeff For Banks

billion in assets, had 87 full-time equivalent employees, and accounted for two-thirds of the town's tax revenue. The Bank's Rise McConnell came to the bank in 1977 from McKeesport, Pennsylvania. Another depressed town due to the general economic malaise that bedraggled the region when the steelmaking industry moved elsewhere.

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Book Report: The Unbanking of America by Lisa Servon

Jeff For Banks

Professor of city and regional planning at the University of Pennsylvania. For example, the securitizing of the residential lending business moved most of that business away from banks to mortgage bankers and brokers, that far and away were the culprits behind preying on the underbanked. They pay no Federal income taxes.

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