THE GOLEMBE LIBRARY

These are the titles of past issues of The Golembe Reports by year, starting with 1985, through 1994.  We are in the process of adding brief descriptions of each report to assist researchers and others seeking information on specific issues. Please check back often.


Reports from 1985 through 1994

1994

1994-1             Banking Agency Consolidation -- How Seriously Should We Take It?

1994-2             Depositor Preference, Insurance Costs, and the Cost of Supervision (Stanley Silverberg)

1994-3             Banking Agency Consolidation -- the Legacy of J. L. Robertson

1994-4             Reflections on the Origins of FDICIA

1994-5             Interstate Branching -- The End of a Long Road

1994-6             A New Chance For Banking Reform?

1994-7             Other Voices, Other Views

1994-8             CRA and the "Faustian Bargain"

1994-9             ". . . A Weariness of the Flesh"


1993

1993-1             Waiting for the New Administration – The Silly Season

1993-2             Understanding Regulatory Intrusion – "You Had To Be There" (Evelyn Carroll Murphy)

1993-3             Consolidation of the Federal Banking Agencies – The Hardy Perennial

1993-4             Where Have All the Failures Gone? (Stanley C. Silverberg)

1993-5             Reflections on the Role of a Director of a Major Banking Organization

1993-6             Who Will be Running the FDIC – And Does it Matter?

1993-7             A Summer Potpourri: Good Works, Old Laws, and Monetary Union

1993-8             Farewell to "EC-92"

1993-9             The Return of the Comptroller

1993-10           ABA Convention Journal

1993-11            Closing the Books on 1993


1992

1992-1             1991 – A Tragic Year for Banking

1992-2             The Regulatory Burden and the FDIC Improvement Act of 1991 (Carter Golembe and Evelyn Carroll)

1992-3             The High Cost of Bank Failures (Stanley C. Silverberg)

1992-4             Reflections on Europe

1992-5             The New Antitrust Realities in Banking (John P. Danforth)

1992-6             Shadow and Substance – Further Thoughts on 1991’s Deposit Insurance Legislation

1992-7             The Summer of 1992 – Does Anyone Care About Banking?

1992-8             Deposit Insurance Premiums – The Price of Victory

1992-9             Reflections on New Administrations, Past and Present

1992-10           Bank Failure Terminology: The Forest for the Trees (David Holland) 


1991

1991-1             Will FDIC Recapitalization Derail Reform?

1991-2             The Treasury Report – First Impressions

1991-3             The GAO Report on Deposit Insurance – Flashes of Mediocrity (Stanley C. Silverberg)

1991-4             Too-Big-to-Fail And All That

1991-5             Core Banking: Some Puzzled Reactions

1991-6             The Basle Committee and the Regulation of U.S. Banks

1991-7             Convention Journal (ABA)

1991-7             A Convention Journal – Erratum

1991-8             Bank Mergers: Benefits and Impediments (Stanley C. Silverberg)

1991-9             The Demise of New Deal Deposit Insurance  (Frip Chissom – a nom de querre of an employee of a federal banking agency)


1990

1990-1             ". . .lands we did not see."

1990-2             Deposit Insurance Reform and the Missing Systems

1990-3             The Community Obligations of Banks, and Financial Reform (P. Michael Laub)

1990-4             A Tale of Two Crises: 1933 and 1990

1990-5             Does the Bank Holding Company Have a Future?

1990-6             Deposit Insurance Assessments – The Education of Boris Ivanov

1990-7             The Fall of Douglas and McFadden (Philip C. Meyer)

1990-8             Banking Reform – an Uncertain Journey

1990-9             The Year Behind and the Year Ahead (William Isaac, John Danforth, Daniel Krabill and Philip Meyer)


1989

1989-1             The Year in Review and 1988’s Top Event (Philip C. Meyer)

1989-2             Reflections on the Administration’s Plan for Dealing with the Savings and Loan Crisis

1989-3             M Corp and the Handling of Large Bank Failures (Stanley C. Silverberg)

1989-4             Assessing Foreign Deposits, and Deposit Insurance Reform

1989-5             Deposit Insurance Reform: Banking’s Top Priority (William M. Isaac)

1989-6             The Shifting Balance of federal and State Banking Powers (Jerry Hawke)

1989-7             FIRREA and the Burden of Bank Regulation

1989-8             "1992" – One Year Closer


1988

1988-1             The Year Ahead (Philip C. Meyer)

1988-2             Some Questions About the Federal Reserve Board’s Risk-Based Capital Guidelines

1988-3             The Problems of Savings and Loans and FSLIC (Stanley C. Silverberg)

1988-4             Financial Reform and the Handling of Failed Banks

1988-5             Congress and Glass-Steagall Reform (Philip C. Meyer)

1988-6             The First Republic Bank Transaction: Another View

1988-7             Containing the Fed’s Regulatory Power (Philip C. Meyer)

1988-8             Proxmire, St. Germain and Glass-Steagall Reform (Philip C. Meyer)

1988-9             "1992" And All That


1987

1987-1             The Year Ahead (Philip C. Meyer)

1987-2             The Glass-Steagall Act – Friend or Foe?

1987-3             The Competitive Equality Banking Act of 1987 (Philip C. Meyer)

1987-4             The Breaux Commission – Is it for Real?

1987-5             Revolution in Regulation

1987-6             Regulatory Policy Implications of Mr. Greenspan Succeeding Mr. Volcker

1987-7             Glass-Steagall: One More Time

1987-8             Should the States Be Where The Action Is?

1987-9             Thrift Acquisitions by Bank Holding Companies (Philip C. Meyer)

1987-10             1987 – Unfulfilled Expectations and Attractive Possibilities

1987-11             The Year in Review and 1987’s Top Event (Philip C. Meyer)


1986

1986-1             Nonbank Banks – Still in Limbo?

1986-2             A Bank Failure is a Bank Failure is a Bank Failure

1986-3             Bank Export Trading Companies – Unfulfilled Promise (Philip C. Meyer)

1986-4             Recapitalization of the FSLIC – Another Lost Opportunity?

1986-5             The New Garn Bill – The Only Game in Town (Philip C. Meyer)

1986-6             A Midsummer Night’s Reflections

1986-7             Tax Reform – Banking Trend

1986-8             "Hold That Line" – The Federal Reserve Board’s View of the Banking Business

1986-9             Obituary for the 99th Congress (Philip C. Meyer)

1986-10           A Thanksgiving Basket – Mr. Boesky; FDIC/FSLIC; the Number of Commercial Banks; banking and Commerce Revisited

1986-11             1986’s Top Event (Philip C. Meyer)


1985

1985-1             Insurance Reform and Interstate Banking – A strange Relationship

1985-2             Reflections on Trust Conference, Past and Present (Bruce Morgan)

1985-3             The Changing of the Guard

1985-4             An Agenda For Banking

1985-5             The Supreme Court and Interstate Banking

1985-6             Of Myths and History – And Current Fears of Bank Size (Barry S. Kolatch)

1985-7             The Abdication of the Congress

1985-8             What Could We Have Done Differently? Is Self-Regulation an Answer?

1985-9             A Christmas Potpourri – And a Few New Year’s Resolutions