All New Bank Star-Ratings This Week
Welcome Back. While you were out enjoying feasts and football, our staff was pouring over third quarter bank data from the FDIC. Successfully, we might add. All new bank star-ratings can be found both in JRN and at bauerfinancial.com. The…
When it Comes to Investments, Timing is Everything
Almost all U.S. banks hold some amount of securities on their books at any given time. But how they report the value of those securities can make a big difference on the bank’s book equity capital… but not necessarily on…
Because We Can Not Live on Cranberries Alone
We wish we could feast on cranberries alone. That was the only item in the American Farm Bureau Federation®’s (AFBF) Annual Cost of Thanksgiving Dinner Survey that actual decreased in price this year. (Last year it was the cubed stuffing…