Pick up any business newspaper today and someone will be opining on the interest rate yield curve. Is it going up, going down, reversing, inverting, or just resting quietly? You’re busy running a business that isn’t a bank, so what’s that all about? Why do you care?...
For a small to mid-sized company, whether startup or emerging go-getter or well established company during a coronavirus era, it’s harder than ever these days to get a bank to lend you the money to build the momentum you need to succeed. Many banks are still afraid of...
In January 2009 Bank of America said in a press release: “To help homeowners avoid foreclosure, Bank of America and Countrywide modified approximately 230,000 home loans during 2008. This year (2009) the company embarked on a loan modification program projected to...
There was a lot of press in late February when the Obama administration announced stress test of the largest banks in the TARP program, to see if they were worthy of additional assistance. Today the press talk is about how much of the results of those tests will be...
Let's build a business fairy tale together. Let's construct a hypothetical business model for making lots of money while keeping our risk as low as possible. We'll pick a new series of products that have very high returns. We know traditionally such...
