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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

The old borrow short, lend long strategy. I want to read to you the FDIC’s conclusion from their An Examination of the Banking Crisis of the 1980’s and Early 1990’s. 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

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The Niche Bank

Jeff For Banks

Me to a community banker: Why don't you offer more options than real estate secured lending to help fund early stage businesses? Banker: Because that's not community banking. I've been in this business over 20 years and still don't know the definition of community banking. I've got news for you.

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The Mother List of All Banking Books

Jeff For Banks

Guardians of Prosperity: Why America Needs Big Banks 2013 John F. al The Deutsche Bank, 1870-1995 1995 Shennette Garrett-Scott Garrett-Scott, Shennette Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. The Maze of Banking: History, Theory, Crisis 2015 Gary B. Bonadio Bonadio, Felice A. Giannini: Banker of America 1994 Richard X.

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