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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. 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? Heck, maybe there'll be a reassessment and your real estate taxes will go down.

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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

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. We knew there was tremendous hubris in the subprime market. The Y2K scare also had companies pouring money into tech firms. What caused it?

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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. They need a marketing person to title their reports. It shows the pre-tax profit as a percent of the loan portfolios measured. What is the trend in your market?

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Personal Capital Review: Free Tools and Paid Wealth Management

MyBankTracker

Personal Capital is an online wealth management concept that started in 2009. The cash account is an FDIC insured financial account, but the APYs are rock bottom. This tool, which only paid clients get access to, helps you develop a personalized and tax-efficient withdrawal strategy for your retirement plan. Tax Optimization.

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The Only Thing to Hate About Personal Finance Management Is the Term ‘PFM’

Javelin Strategy & Research

I said that in first PFM report for Javelin in 2009, and I’ve repeated it in the seven reports since, most recently in “Managing Money in the ‘Mobile-First’ Era: A Blueprint for On-the-Go Personal Finance Management.”. Digit is an FDIC-insured automated savings account. And that brings me to Digit. And it pays no interest.

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The Thinker

Independent Banker

Jack Hartings and Mindy Kremer, marketing director for Mercer Health Hospital in Coldwater, talk in a patient care unit. When the economy came crashing down in 2009, The Peoples Bank was able to work with customers facing hard times. Today the bank originates almost three times as many secondary market loans as portfolio mortgages.

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