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What's With Regulator Agita Over Bank Commercial Real Estate Lending?

Jeff For Banks

and New York Community Bancorp called off their planned merger. Both institutions were over the CRE concentration guidelines, so putting them together would exasperate this risk, so the regulatory thinking must have been. Risk mitigants tend to lag growth, especially fast growth. And regulators are getting anxious.

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Guest Post: FInancial Markets and Economic Update by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

After easing and keeping rates low for three years, the Fed began tightening from June, 2004 to June, 2006. This is because the economy has been gaining momentum, however modest, from the tax cuts and deregulation. Dorothy has been with Penn Community Bank and its predecessor since November, 2004. The economy has grown 2.2%

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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

bank failures per year between 1996 and 2006, and 3.6 When the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 passed, the top capital gains tax rate was lowered, providing yet another incentive for equity speculators to pour money into the fledgling internet industry. Most of the more than 500 financial institutions that failed were community banks.

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