The Bank Failure That Sent a Ripple Through American Banking: Steve Plunk’s Lessons from Penn Square

Episode notes

Steve Plunk was the OCC examiner at the center of the Penn Square Bank collapse, one of the most consequential bank failures in American history. He sits down with Travillian's Amber Buker to revisit the oil-fueled bank that fooled the biggest names in banking, the one line on the balance sheet that brought it down, and where that same blind spot is hiding in banks today. A special conversation from the collaboration series between Travillian Next and Maxfield on Banks.

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