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Guest Post: Quarterly Financial Markets and Economics Update by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

Since the recovery began in June, 2009, real GDP growth has averaged 2.3%. Bank lending has not been the catalyst it used to be for improved growth in this recovery compared to prior ones; maybe we can point at regulation after regulation being forced onto banks and higher, more restrictive capital requirements. since 2009.

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

Jeff For Banks

Construction concentration criteria : Loans for construction, land, and land development (CLD) represent 100% or more of a banking institution's total risk-based capital. But isn't fast growth by itself an indicator of increased risk of failure, regardless of the loans that fueled the growth? The below two charts tell a story.

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Guest Post: 2013 Economic Year in Review and Outlook by Banker Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

To put that GDP growth into perspective, consider that, in the three years following the recovery which began in June, 2009, real GDP averaged +2.2%. and Janney Capital Markets at 2.1% Businesses are still cautious in capital spending. In the ten previous recessions, real GDP averaged +4.6% during a recovery.

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Guest Post: 3rd Quarter Economic Update by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

An August report by Challenger, Gray, and Christmas showed that layoffs have declined dramatically, to a monthly average of 56,000 since June, 2009 and have been below 100,000 for fourteen consecutive months for the first time since 1999-2000. Job openings reported by the Labor Department in July were 3.04 Thanks for reading!

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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

Finally, resolution of failing financial institutions requires that the deposit insurance fund be strongly capitalized with real reserves, not just federal guarantee.” To you, manage your interest rate risk. Before becoming desperate and trading interest rate risk for credit risk. What caused it?

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Guest Post: Third Quarter Economic Update by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

Liquidity is becoming a problem for these banks, and with their stocks battered daily, they have no ready sources of capital. Stocks have taken the brunt of investor frustration, selling off steeply in the third quarter for the worst quarterly loss since the height of the financial crisis in late 2008 and early 2009. per gallon.

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US Government Policy On SMB Lending In Flux

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Carranza has a history at the SBA, serving as its deputy administrator between 2006 and 2009. ” He added that the hiked fees are likely to pass costs down to small business borrowers, and limit their ability to access capital. ” said Trump in a tweet announcing the nomination, according to Reuters. Last year, the U.S.

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