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Retired Manitowoc Banker Leads Foundation
Posted on August 9th, 2009 No commentsTom Bare retired last December after 25 years at Bank First National in Manitowoc, where he helped grow assets from $75 million to $760 million. He’s now the president board chairman of the Ruth St. John and John Dunham West Foundation. Read more in the Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter.
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‘A New Generation of Bank Haters’
Posted on August 9th, 2009 No comments“I’m trying to determine if the dislike of big bankers [during the Great Depression] was any worse than it is today,” writes Dave Zwiefel in The Capital Times. “From what I’ve read, the bankers whose establishments crashed and burned during the 1930s may have been a little more chastened and even humbled by the financial meltdown they helped create.”
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Economy Shifting to Recovery Mode
Posted on August 9th, 2009 No commentsWith the economic outlook slowly transitioning from recession to recovery, prices for lots of badly battered stocks have jumped – as reflected in a 49 percent rise in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index from its bottom in March. “We believe we’ve seen the worst,” one analyst said in a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article.