Is Oklahoma City the 'future of America'?

 

Published: September 15, 2010

If you talk long enough to an Oklahoma banker, he or she eventually will mention Penn Square Bank , typically to ensure the listener that state bankers won't make those mistakes again.

It has been more than 28 years since that infamous Oklahoma City bank collapsed amid a slew of bad energy loans, and triggered an economic meltdown that took down scores of Oklahoma banks and thousands of Oklahomans' dreams.

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