“It’s Hollywood!” my grandfather said as he watched the first man land on the moon. “That’s not really happening.”
From the viewpoint of my grandfather—who still owned the horses on his farm till the day he died because he did not trust that tractors were really the wave of the future—a person on the moon was beyond his scope of understanding.
That situation is not very dissimilar from the current state of banking. Most banks are experiencing acceptable spreads, so they are holding onto their horses while financial services companies are moving on to four-wheel drive,
