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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. And quite frankly, I did not know there were so many tranches to mortgage-backed securities. We took a serious reputational hit. Good times.

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Is US Financial Regulatory Reform Dead or Ready for Take Off?

FICO

In June, the House adopted, along a party line vote, the Choice Act, which aims to make broad changes to the 2010 Dodd-Frank statute. Perhaps an equally daunting challenge is the already crowded legislative agenda, which includes heavy-lift items like healthcare and tax reform and increased infrastructure spending.

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The Thinker

Independent Banker

Executive Committee, member, from 2010-2015. FDIC Advisory Committee on Community Banking, member. Hartings dove into the details of the deal, which involved ensuring Wright State University would help manage the dorms, finding a legal firm to handle the paperwork and helping get approval for tax-exempt financing from the county. “We

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