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Guest Post: Financial Markets and Economic Update - First Quarter 2024

Jeff For Banks

Our lives changed forever from this whole experience of the government’s declaration of a national emergency, leading to forced shutdowns of businesses and schools, mandated mask wearing, forcing 6-foot distances between people, travel restrictions, fear mongering with case and death counts, and forced vaccines/boosters. Real GDP was +3.2%

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Time Tried, Panic Tested. The Forgotten Story of the First National Bank of Keystone

Jeff For Banks

The bank, First National Bank of Keystone, was $1.1 billion in assets, had 87 full-time equivalent employees, and accounted for two-thirds of the town's tax revenue. The government guarantee allowed for a secondary market in these loans. And so went the birth of First National Bank of Keystone's meteoric rise.

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Bank Customers Lose Real Money

Jeff For Banks

You've been conservative, preferring the stability and security of bank deposits versus the gyrations of the market. Then, boom, the 2008 financial crisis. Sure, your home value declined, but what does that mean to someone with little to no mortgage and isn't in the market to sell? Taxes go down? Your money grew.

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Money Management During The Coronavirus Crisis

BankBazaar

The Covid-19 pandemic has pushed entire nations into lockdowns, crushed value chains, and stressed household finances. It is way worse than the global financial crisis of 2008-2009.”. Also know the tax implications of the liquidation as well as the costs of liquidation such as penalties or exit loads. We are now in recession.

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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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Happy Returns

Independent Banker

Greg Steverson (left) successfully manages a $100 million institutional investment portfolio for Ledyard National Bank in Norwich, Vt. It could arguably be deemed a feat of investing prowess and market prescience to not only manage well in this market, but thrive in it. Greg Steverson, Ledyard National Bank.

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How the OCC is building Crypto America

Lex Sokolin

But regardless of all that, $1 trillion of value has indeed materialized and grown on blockchain-based financial networks since 2008. They have not been distributed by fiduciaries to the mass market. Selling a diversified, cheap asset allocation as your core investment is a stable market equilibrium. Like taxes.

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