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Republican Jon Huntsman is putting a conservative imprint on the idea of breaking up the largest banks.

Bankers are frustrated by lackluster earnings and low stock prices despite improving balance sheets. Many long for the return of pre-crisis earnings growth and pricing multiples. Some will be tempted to pursue increased earnings through misguided expansion strategies rather than returning excess capital to investors.

Communicate with your members to protect them from other lenders who might solicit them with loans or other financial products not in the borrowers' best interest.

Before they are lost and resurrected only by Google, we remember here some of the credit unions that called to order in 2011 their last board meetings.

Was it 650,000 or 440,000 or less than 250,000 as claimed by the bankers? I don't know and don't really care. But as Frank J. Diekmann recently commented, we should wish to eat this kind of crow again.

In today's market the challenge to earn reasonable returns on savings and retirement funds have brought about a renewed interest in a time-tested benefit plan.

Fair value measurements marked to internal models may satisfy auditors and regulators. But investors demand independent valuations of thinly traded securities to eliminate any appearance of conflicts of interest.

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Banks today find themselves in a strategic box as seemingly impenetrable as one of their vaults.

There's more confusion in the Obama administration's policy response to the foreclosure crisis than an Abbott and Costello routine. Now the Fed steps up to the plate.