Boys, I’m hoping in all your high-profile C-SPAN hearings and hob knobbing with these new financial “celebrities” you remember that it’s the grass roots of our country that has and always will have the power to bring us out of bad times. [Read more]
It wasn’t fun hearing FDIC Director Sheila Bair report this week on the state of the banking industry. Going forward, only those community banks drafting a new playbook during today’s Dark Ages will have a shot at attending the next gen community banking conferences a decade from now. [Read more]
Q2 2008 will be remembered as a time when the banking industry’s tenuous optimism about a light recession and mild credit issues turned into the worst environment in 30 years. [Read more]