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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

More recently and by comparison, the mortgage meltdown and subsequent global financial crisis took down more than 500 banks between 2007 and 2014, with total assets of nearly $959 billion. To you, manage your interest rate risk. And quite frankly, I did not know there were so many tranches to mortgage-backed securities.

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A Decline in Personal Savings

TrustBank

The BEA calculates the personal saving rate by subtracting taxes from personal income to arrive at “disposable personal income” and then subtracts personal outlays. By the 1990’s, improvements in technology and further changes to securities regulations made it easier for corporate customers to access financial markets directly.

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Guest Post: 2012 Economic Year in Review by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

We have a long way to go before recapturing the home price highs of 2006 and 2007, but it is a start. They announced another quantitative easing program—this time, QE3—part 2, in which they will buy $45 billion a month in Treasury bonds in addition to the $40 billion per month of mortgage backed securities that they are buying for QE3.

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My Fantasy Banking Team

Jeff For Banks

Since his joining the Board, the bank has stabilized, returned to profitability, recaptured it's deferred tax asset, and NPAs/Assets have declined to less than 3%. Selection: Greg Garrabrants, BofI Holding, Inc, (NASDAQ: BOFI) Greg has been in charge of the Bank since 2007. Security Bank in Midland, Texas lends to business, period.

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Consumer Lending: Should Banks Do It?

Jeff For Banks

Mortgage bankers and brokers own a significant share of market (although less than prior to the 2007-08 financial crisis). Which we already do via buying mortgage back securities and using loan brokers in metro areas. Real estate secured. pre-tax profit as a percent of the portfolio. Hard collateral. charge-off rate.

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Guest Post: Financial Markets and Economic Update by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

trillion in Agency mortgage backed securities. million at the end of December, 2007, before the crisis hit in 2008. Physical security costs ramped up over the past 15 years; just ask the airlines and Homeland Security. Remember all of the quantitative easing, or “QE,” purchase programs? trillion in Treasuries and $1.8

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Reverse Trend

Independent Banker

As that older generation continues to age, reverse mortgages could become mainstream financial planning products that increasingly more house-rich but cash-strapped senior borrowers will need, says Dan Barksdale, a division manager for FirstBank in Lexington, Tenn., who oversees 32 loan officers dedicated to providing the loans.

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