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Guest Post: FInancial Markets and Economic Update by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

We have one year to go to match the longest expansion since World War II, which was the prosperous period engineered by Maestro Greenspan from March, 1991 to March, 2001. This is because the economy has been gaining momentum, however modest, from the tax cuts and deregulation. The economy has grown 2.2% Life is good!

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Guest Post: Financial Markets and Economic Update by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

After a lengthy stretch of strong economic growth and stock market gains, the inevitable correction arrived with force in the fourth quarter, culminating with a December that can only be described as “tres terrible!” A Long, Cold December I could just scream! The spread between 3 month and 10 year Treasuries is not much better, dropping to.23%

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Guest Post: Financial Markets and Economic Update by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

Economic growth picked up strongly in the second quarter, with a reading of +4.2%, as momentum from the tax cuts and deregulation pushed spending and investment higher. The longest expansion on record was from March, 1991 to March, 2001, with growth of 3.6%, engineered by Maestro Greenspan. Economy The economy is on a roll!

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A Decline in Personal Savings

TrustBank

The BEA calculates the personal saving rate by subtracting taxes from personal income to arrive at “disposable personal income” and then subtracts personal outlays. By the 1990’s, improvements in technology and further changes to securities regulations made it easier for corporate customers to access financial markets directly.

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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

To you, manage your interest rate risk. The dot-com bubble recession began in March 2001 and lasted only 8 months. percent of all jobs in 2001 to 11.3 By comparison, non-high-tech industries lost 689,000 jobs between 2001 and 2002 but recovered the lost jobs by 2004. High-tech employment fell from 12.1 What caused it?

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Consumer Lending: Should Banks Do It?

Jeff For Banks

Ever since we formed our company in 2001, this has been the case. Mortgage bankers and brokers own a significant share of market (although less than prior to the 2007-08 financial crisis). And Quicken Loans is in the top 5 HMDA market share in nearly every market we analyze. We lost auto loans to the indirect market.

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Fools Rush In: 37 Of The Worst Corporate M&A Flops

CB Insights

In a deal that aimed to open the Chinese coal markets, US heavy-equipment behemoth Caterpillar paid $677M in 2012 to acquire ERA Mining Machinery Ltd. The Chinese coal market is one of the biggest in the world and this deal looked like easy money. a leading producer of hydraulic coal-mine roof supports in China. Google and Motorola.

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