During the past two years, American consumers have enjoyed vigorous economic growth. Our second quarter GDP was 4.1%. The beginning of November showed an annual wage growth rate of 3.1%, 7.4 million job openings, and an unemployment rate of 3.7%. Those economic conditions welcome recent graduates and some of the marginally attached workers into employment. […]
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Expecting a Crush of Lenders for Low Down Payment Mortgages?
The most prominent obligation for federal bank regulators – the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Federal Reserve, and the Controller of the Currency – is to avoid another taxpayer bailout as happened in 2008. The Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) infused $250 billion into banks to stabilize them. The program was embarrassing to banks […]
Huffington Post: Give Competition a Chance
The Huffington Post published today a piece by Steve Pociask, president of ACI. The piece discusses reintroduced designed to allow credit unions to compete against banks for small business lending. The piece can be downloaded and read here.
ACI in the Huffington Post — Why Cap Growth?
As the end of the year fast approaches, there is a lot of work left for Congress to do. Getting the budget in fiscal order is imperative and represents the single most important item to address. However, once the budget is put on safe financial footing, the long-term key to balancing the budget is having […]