Time to have some fun. That's what this column is all about. Look ahead if you can to the 30th anniversary of Credit Union Times. That would be the year 2020. Here are some of the front page headlines you might see: *

Not all cases of identity theft have to do with credit cards or other financial matters. Apparently an individual involved with credit unions has been making calls to credit unions in which he identifies himself on the phone as Mike Welch, publisher of Credit Union Times. One such call was...

The list of what banking industry lobbyists find objectionable about individual credit unions and CUs in general is a very long list that seems to be getting longer by the day. Add to that list, bankers' complaints about national and state credit union trade groups, as well as state and...

Most times credit unions and labor unions co-exist with no problems, but as clearly demonstrated in well-publicized difficulties between several credit unions and the labor unions representing their staffs, sometimes they can be at each other's throats. One obvious result is bad relations between unionized employees and management and the...

The past several weeks have been among the busiest times for national CU trade group staffers and elected leaders. While many credit unions tend to operate in a slightly lower gear between Christmas and New Years, those representing credit unions at the national level must continue to operate at full...

Hundreds of men and women have been bestowed with the informal title of credit union industry leader. In reality, many never actually led. They were automatically categorized as leaders by virtue of leadership positions they held. When Ed Callahan retired as CEO of Patelco Credit Union on December 31st, his...

It's another brand new year and time once again to drag out the old crystal ball. Here are my annual predictions: First, the easy ones. Credit union growth in all key areas will be unprecedented in 2003. Loan portfolios will continue to look more like the old savings and loans...

Seems like only yesterday that I went out on a limb to predict what the world of credit unions would look like in the year 2002. How did I do? Being an eternal optimist, I predicted that the overall economy would improve as 2002 unfolded. It did a bit but...