It appears that all those banks that didn’t take TARP money and used that fact to publicly bash their brothers who did take TARP needn’t have bothered to spend all those bucks on billboards. According to Rich Brose of Maritz Research in a recent i (more…)

Reports of increased scrutiny of banks–particularly community banks–because of deteriorating commercial real estate values keep piling on. In Boston, the local business press seized upon the fact that commercial real estate concentrations at sever (more…)

Well over four years ago, before the subprime mortgage meltdown caused all our economic dominoes to tumble one into the other, leaving us wallowing in the current morass, I wrote a brief post about an important case involving directors of a company m (more…)

Whatever Mark Zandi’s smoking, I want a toke.

Testifying today before the Congressional Oversight Panel that “oversees” the Treasury Department’s TARP, Mr. Zandi made a bold assertion.

Mark Zandi, the chief economist and cofounder of Moody’s (more…)

Former client and long time banker Pat Dalrymple (the subject of a previous post) has joined the world of banking bloggers with “Contrabanker: A Bank Contrarian’s Blog”). If Pat’s first post is any indication, he’s going to provide a no-holds-b (more…)