[elkfersupper]

They are not rich, but they are the only banks that should survive the times to come, IMO, and I'll enjoy working with them again this year. ;-)

Check back later. The regulators are changing all of that.

I'm really starting to believe that our overlords want one (1) bank, which they and they alone control.

[familyop]

Well, on the “regulators,” I hope that some of the big investment banks don’t do what some of the big lumber mills and developers did with getting too much into government to shut their smaller competitors down (mostly using employees who posed as environmentalists in county and state level meetings, board positions and the like). Many of the regulations devised by well-meaning, idealistic government department heads are more than bad enough (if their are any who aren’t really porking for semi-private special interests).

[tubebender]

The Cadilliac GMC dealer in my town shut down 3 months ago and guess what? The intuition holding the paper on the Flooring could not find 26 new cars because they ended up going over seas...