2007 Risk Management Taxes 
Jeff For Banks
JANUARY 19, 2013
We have a long way to go before recapturing the home price highs of 2006 and 2007, but it is a start. The “Fiscal Cliff” Who in their right minds would have so many critical tax codes and laws expiring all on the same year-end date? The tax bracket changes become permanent and that will allow planning to resume.
Jeff For Banks
MARCH 21, 2024
Trillions of dollars of subsidies on “green” BS projects, electric vehicles no one wants, tax credits, debt forgiveness, and free money all fuel demand and contribute to inflation. It sounds like 2007 all over again, when people got tired of looking at LEI and then in 2008, all hell broke loose. Real GDP was +3.2% in 4Q23, of which.73%
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Jeff For Banks
AUGUST 12, 2018
This is because the economy has been gaining momentum, however modest, from the tax cuts and deregulation. In my career, I’ve lived through many years of the Fed raising interest rates and it’s my experience that they usually tighten too much and keep rates high for too long, just like in 2001 and 2006-2007. The economy has grown 2.2%
Jeff For Banks
MAY 20, 2017
But isn't fast growth by itself an indicator of increased risk of failure, regardless of the loans that fueled the growth? Risk mitigants tend to lag growth, especially fast growth. And success is the great mollifier to risk managers that wish to take away the punch bowl when the party's rockin'.
Jeff For Banks
AUGUST 12, 2010
Government and regulators are contributing to the pessimism with financial reform legislation that does not even address some of the causes of the crisis, new FASB proposals to impose harmful mark-to-market accounting on bank loans, and the looming expiration of the Bush tax cuts in 2011. Bummers all. Thanks for reading!
Jeff For Banks
JUNE 2, 2023
More recently and by comparison, the mortgage meltdown and subsequent global financial crisis took down more than 500 banks between 2007 and 2014, with total assets of nearly $959 billion. Between 1980 and 1995, more than 2,900 banks and thrifts with collective assets of more than $2.2 trillion failed. What caused it?
Jeff For Banks
JULY 8, 2017
The promises included tax cuts to 15% (although a much less dramatic decrease is expected), repeal and replacement of ObamaCare (stalled in the Senate), regulatory reform (some energy rules relaxed, but not much else), infrastructure spending to repair and replace our crumbling structures, roads, airports, electrical grids, etc.
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