Tis the season everyone! Bowl Season that is! Tonight, we can all enjoy the Hometown Lenders Bahamas Bowl! Don’t worry if you miss tonight’s bowl…
Another week down and another week closer to Christmas. The Federal Reserve is trying to get off Santa’s naughty list by cooling inflation without tipping…
As we say at the Baker Group, Happy Jobs Friday everyone! What a world we live in today when the breaking news headline on CNBC…
As a young aspiring bank examiner in 2009, I first learned about interest rate risk management during a period of zero interest rate policy, which…
“Today we received news that our economy had 0 percent inflation in the month of July.” stated President Biden last Wednesday morning after Consumer Price…
Over the last two years, the banking industry has experienced massive deposit growth, which flooded banks with excess liquidity. Most of the deposits flowed in…
2020 was a year of challenges in many aspects of life, business, and the economy. The start of 2021 brought a close to a tumultuous…
Before the COVID-19 pandemic took hold on the world and the United States, many community bankers watched the slow fall of their on-balance sheet liquidity.…