Andrew Couse @acouse13
President and CEO at First Bank in Clewiston FL linkedin.com/in/andrew-cous… Moore Haven, FL Joined November 2021-
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Americans aren’t buying what the crypto industry is selling and neither should Congress. Congress should push pause on the Clarity Act to protect our financial system. Thank you @romerorainey for speaking up! washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/4649890…
@MaxfieldOnBanks John there is some guy ina suit impersonating you 😂
To the Americans: I've travelled all over the world. I've familiarized myself with many places, and met many people. And I'm a Canadian, although I’m privileged to reside once again in the States. And here's something I've noticed, and it’s a key element of America's continuing greatness: You bloody Americans value success, and you believe in its existence. This is something that doesn't really happen anywhere else in the world. Even in other free democracies—the United Kingdom; Finland, Sweden, and Norway; Australia, New Zealand and Canada; Germany, France, and the Netherlands (great countries all)—a counterproductive cynicism too often reigns. Success is equated with exploitation. Ambition is looked upon with contempt. This happens sometimes in the United States too—particularly among the miserable progressives, who confuse their resentment, ingratitude and unearned skepticism with wisdom. But in your great country, by and large, striving is admired and success celebrated. This means that more people strive and succeed in the US than anywhere else. And it's increasingly obvious. You remain stunningly more innovative and productive than any people anywhere else on the planet. And so I say, as all should who are fortunate enough to live in the western world, let alone America: Thank God for the United States. Thank God for the wisdom of its founders. Thank God for its faith in the free market and in the natural rights of man. Happy birthday, you damn Yankees and Southerners. Long may your admirable country dominate the world. Long may your freedom and hope provide an example to those suffering everywhere at the hands of their malevolent states. May your two and a half centuries of unparallelled success be just the beginning. Your country is the light of the world, and the city on the hill. Thank God for the USA. Happy 250th. Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
Protect Local Communities youtu.be/QXqkJYJjwXo?is… via @YouTube #CommunityBanks protect #MainStreet Crypto firms will never be able to replicate the systemically important role that we play for everyday Americans. Don’t be deceived Congress! @SenKatieBritt @SenTuberville @Robert_Aderholt @MorningsMaria @MariaBartiromo
Après avoir vu Elon répondre au Programme alimentaire mondial de l'ONU qui lui réclamait 6 milliards pour "résoudre la faim dans le monde", j'ai compris quelque chose que je vais essayer de prouver ici. Désormais, méfiez-vous de TOUT le monde qui achète de la sympathie publique en signant des chèques. Reprenons l'histoire d'Elon, parce qu'elle est parfaite. 2021. Le patron du PAM, David Beasley, le tague publiquement : "2 % de ta fortune et tu résous la faim." Elon ne dit pas non. Il dit une seule chose, et c'est la chose la plus saine qu'un milliardaire ait jamais dite à une ONG : "Décrivez-moi exactement comment 6 milliards résolvent la faim. Compta open-source, que le public voie où va chaque dollar. Et je vends du Tesla immédiatement." Réponse de l'ONU : un plan à 6,6 milliards pour nourrir 42 millions de personnes… pendant un an. Vous voyez le problème ? Ils n'ont jamais pu répondre à la vraie question. Parce que la réponse n'existe pas. Le don ne résout rien : il nourrit douze mois, et la faim revient en janvier. C'est un abonnement, pas une solution. Beasley demandait un robinet permanent et l'appelait "charité". La charité moderne, c'est ça : un puits sans fond déguisé en vertu. Elle ne touche jamais les causes profondes — la gouvernance, les institutions, la corruption, l'absence de marchés — parce que toucher les causes profondes tuerait l'industrie. Une ONG qui résout son problème se suicide. Son incitation, c'est que le problème dure. Et l'argent ? Il ne va presque jamais à ceux qui sont censés le recevoir. Il s'évapore en couches de logistique, de salaires d'ONG, d'overhead, de "renforcement des capacités", de conférences à Genève. Vous donnez 100, le bénéficiaire en voit une fraction. Le reste fait vivre la classe professionnelle de la compassion. Et puis il y a l'aile "intellectuelle" du truc : l'effective altruism. La version QI 145 du virtue signaling. Calculer froidement le bien marginal par dollar, "earn to give", sauver le futur. Le poster boy du mouvement s'appelait Sam Bankman-Fried. Il a détourné des milliards de clients en expliquant que c'était pour le bien de l'humanité. 25 ans de prison. Toute la ramification autour — fondations, think tanks, gourous de la moralité quantifiée — a découvert que l'altruisme optimisé est l'alibi parfait pour la fraude. Quand tu te crois en mission cosmique, voler devient un détail comptable. Maintenant, le retournement. Devinez la SEULE forme de charité avec des preuves dures, des RCT propres, qui marche vraiment ? Donner du cash. Brut. Random. À un village. Sans condition, sans plan, sans ONG qui t'explique comment vivre. Étude Egger et al., Econometrica 2022 : 1 000 $ donnés à 10 500 ménages dans 653 villages au Kenya. Résultat : pour chaque dollar injecté, ~2,5 dollars d'activité économique locale. Quasi zéro inflation. Les gens achètent, les commerçants embauchent, le grain circule, le meunier rouvre plus tard. ~80 % de l'argent reste dans le marché local. Et c'est là l'ironie totale, presque cruelle : le seul "acte de charité" qui fonctionne fonctionne parce que ce n'est PAS de la charité. C'est juste… du capital qu'on laisse couler dans une économie. Vous n'aidez pas les gens en leur donnant un plan. Vous les aidez en amorçant la pompe et en les laissant être des agents économiques. La charité qui marche, c'est juste du capitalisme déclenché de force. Donc voilà ma règle. Méfiez-vous de quiconque achète votre estime avec un don public. Le chèque visible n'est pas une preuve de vertu, c'est une transaction : de la sympathie contre de l'argent, payée par les pauvres qui restent pauvres pour que le donateur reste admiré. La vraie philanthropie ne pose pas pour la photo. Elle construit des produits, des entreprises, des emplois, des marchés. Elle amorce la pompe et s'en va. Le reste, c'est de la cocaïne pour riches sans créativité.
Jeff Bezos' ex-wife MacKenzie Scott has given over $26,300,000,000 to charity, making her one of the biggest individual donors in history. She wants to spend the majority of her Bezos fortune on helping others and making the world a better place.
Reflecting on the past six months and the work still ahead, I want to pause and recognize what our industry has achieved and what we’re building toward. icba.org/w/six-communit…
This Frenchman describing Buc-ee’s is the only thing you need today (IG: Erosbrousson)
We don’t know how good we have it in the USA. This is the sad nature of man. The grass is always greener.
Europeans discovering America is some of the best content of the internet right now:
THE REACTIONS❗️ Just doesn't get better than that... 🙏 ✝️
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Anyone else have AI fatigue? So sick of hearing about it. I don’t need it to write me an email or answer my customer service call. Use it to cure cancer and then get it out of my face.
Today ICBA Chair @Alice_P_Frazier welcomed community bankers from across the country to #ICBASummit and reminded us that as our community grows and strengthens, so does our voice and our allies who believe in community banking.
Moments like this highlight the gap b/t regulated finance and voluntary backstops. FDIC-insured banks offer clear, enforceable safeguards for depositors. By contrast, support for platforms like Aave rely on goodwill, not guarantees. Stability isn’t improvised—it’s built with oversight, standards, & accountability.
Most of what I've done in banking until now, has been done behind closed doors. Boosting the confidence of bank executives and their employees so they feel empowered to do the right thing. Along the way, I'm often asked what I do and why I do it. Here's my answer...
I have heard it said, “God didn’t die for frogs. He died for humans, implying we were worth the sacrifice.” This turns grace on its head. We are less deserving than frogs. They have not sinned. They have not rebelled and treated God with the contempt of being inconsequential in their lives. God did not have to die for frogs. They aren’t bad enough. We are. Our debt is so great, only a divine sacrifice could pay it.
Americans are skeptical of the Durbin-Marshall credit card mandates — and for good reason. @ICBA polling: 71% say changing checkout technology is risky. Two-thirds believe mega-stores would choose cheaper, less secure networks. Policymakers should take note. Mandates are NOT about helping consumers or small businesses. It’s about boosting corporate megastores profits at everyone else’s expense. icba.org/newsroom/news-…
@MaxfieldOnBanks It was great spending the day with you today. It was an absolute joy to get to share our story. Keep up the great work. The Couses and First Bank are behind you all the way!
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