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Bank Customers Lose Real Money

Jeff For Banks

If this were 2006, things would be good. Heck, maybe there'll be a reassessment and your real estate taxes will go down. Taxes go down? Retiree: That's Not So Funny To the retiree that prefers the safe haven of FDIC insured deposits held at the local bank that lends it out locally, this is a serious issue. I made a funny.

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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 To you, manage your interest rate risk. 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. Between 1941 and 1979, an average of 5.3

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

Jeff For Banks

To remind readers, in 2006 the OCC, Federal Reserve, and FDIC issued joint interagency Guidance on Concentrations in Commercial Real Estate Lending. And success is the great mollifier to risk managers that wish to take away the punch bowl when the party's rockin'. They need a marketing person to title their reports.

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