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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 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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Banking's Top 5 in Total Return to Shareholders: 2017 Edition

Jeff For Banks

billion in asset company headquartered in West Virginia, providing community banking services primarily in the Eastern Panhandle and South Central regions of the state, and the Northern and Shenandoah Valley regions of Virginia. Actually, the Bank had a one-time after tax litigation settlement (from a 2002-04 event) of $6.2

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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. Bye Bye Banks: The End of Community Banking as an Engine of Economic Growth 2010 Robert H. Bove Bove, Richard X.

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