Q2 2008 will be remembered as a time when the banking industry’s tenuous optimism about a light recession and mild credit issues turned into the worst environment in 30 years. [Read more]
A banker told me some whippersnapper in Marketing said there might be something valuable hidden in the data mine. Can you believe it? he wanted to know. "I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t," I said. "Let’s head on into the mine." [Read more]