Some wise person once wrote, "If we always do what we have always done, we will always get what we always got."

But that person wasn't Chip Filson, although Sarah Snell Cooke, in her March 7 column, wrote "he's fiercely intelligent" ("Avoid Solutions Looking for Problems").

I am certain no one needs to lecture Chip that we now have only 7,000 credit unions with perhaps a trillion dollars in assets. I doubt there is anyone anywhere who knows more about credit union statistics than Chip Filson. After all, as co-founder of Callahan & Associates, he developed the first-ever, comprehensive statistics to help credit unions analyze their performance and review peer comparisons.

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