Sat.Nov 05, 2011 - Fri.Nov 11, 2011

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Community Financial Institutions: Parking Lot for the Benjamins

Jeff For Banks

'The current market volatility has been with us for nearly three years. To resuscitate the economy, the Fed is doing everything possible to keep interest rates low through monetary policy. First dropping the Fed Funds rate to near zero, and most recently with Operation Twist designed to guide long-term rates even lower. The Euro Zone debt crisis and resulting lack of investment alternatives makes US Treasuries, as one economist put it, the "best house in a bad neighborhood".