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COLUMNISTS Banking the wild old way

Posted: August 23, 2009 at 3:41 a.m.

The recent spate of bank failures reminds me that for much of its early existence Arkansas was plagued by debt due to the failure of its early banking system. Much of this debt involved out-ofstate investors, perhaps the strangest case involving the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.

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Editorial, Pages 76 on 08/23/2009

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