If you were going to sit down and design the opposite of a Wall Street banker, you would probably come up with someone like Patrick Cullen. Cullen runs the smallest bank by assets in the state of New York -- the Bank of Cattaraugus, located in the village of Cattaraugus in western New York. Cullen, recently featured on CBS News, has little in common with the Jamie Dimons and Brian Moynihans of the world. He seems to know everyone in his community, and reportedly has a good relationship with practically all of his customers. BLOG POSTS | Steven Cohen: We Need to Put the Class of 2012 to Work If you're going to occupy Wall Street or anyplace else, it's not enough to just sit around beating on drums once you get there. You must do something. Moreover, the forces of greed and intolerance are relatively immune to information and analysis. | | Susan Feldman & Ali Pincus: How Do You Know When You Have a Good Business Idea? Despite starting a new business during the worst economic downturn of our lifetime, our passion consumed us and we forged ahead. Good times or bad, an innovative business can prevail. | | Ann Bauer: A Marriage Made of Money Given the choice between the flailing middle class and obscene wealth...? I think I might actually take the first. Because I remember how it felt being married to someone who had a different approach to money and a completely different set of priorities. It was profoundly lonely. | | Katie Hawkes: Grad School: Worth the Price Tag? Maybe if we stopped viewing the value of education for the value of its price tag, we'd get a clearer picture of the pros and cons of grad school. Not everything can be properly evaluated with a financial measuring stick. | | Algernon Austin: Latinos And The Good Jobs Crisis If Latinos are to fully recover from the ravages of the Great Recession, they will need not simply jobs, but jobs that lead to increased earnings over time and that also have good benefits. In short, they will need what we call "good jobs." | | MOST POPULAR ON HUFFINGTONPOST.COM |
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