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The State of the Union: President Obama vowed to use his executive power to reduce the gap between the wealthiest and poorest Americans and jump start the economy. The president said he will sign an executive order in the coming weeks to raise the federal minimum wage for employees on new federal contracts. He also plans to create a new retirement savings program. Both the Wall Street Journal and the New York...

The JPMorgan Chase chiefÂ's recent raise is sure to reignite debate over executive compensation and how bank CEOs should be judged.

Experienced community bank executives know that failure to manage their bankÂ's sensitivity to interest rate risk can cause financial troubles.

A recap of the informed opinions (and the discussions they generated) on BankThink this week.

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Teflon Jamie: Here's what the headlines are telling us about JPMorgan Chase's Jamie Dimon, who was out-and-about at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Thursday. He's not a fan of Bitcoin. ("It's a terrible store of value," Dimon told CNBC. "It could be replicated over and over." Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, more or less, agrees.) He thinks the "sun, the moon and the stars" have lined up for the U.S. economy....