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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. In 2006, the then $686 million in asset bank made $8.8 banks failed a year.

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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. Construction concentration criteria : Loans for construction, land, and land development (CLD) represent 100% or more of a banking institution's total risk-based capital.

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