Small Business Bank in Kansas failed on Friday, the second failure in a week and the fourth failure overall in 2026.

Did I lock my door? I don’t know. I don’t remember. I have a phenomenal number of memory failures like this. Did I respond to that email or merely think about responding? Have I told my class about ...

About the author: John W. Popeo is a partner at The Gallatin Group, an independent advisory firm. He previously worked at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Forthcoming interest rate cuts may ...

Failure is the best teacher if you survive it and learn from it—not just experience it. It’s not easy to talk about this, but I’ve failed. Many many times. Not just big public failures that show up in ...