Scott Shay

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Commentator | Author | Co-Founder & Chairman — Signature Bank of New York

Scott A. Shay has had a successful business career spanning Wall Street, private equity, venture capital, and banking. He co-founded Signature Bank of New York and has served as its Chairman since its formation. He has been a provocative commentator on many financial issues, including among others, how the banking system should best function to help society, the implications of a cashless world, and tax reform. Scott called for the re-imposition of Glass-Steagall and breaking up the big banks at a TEDx talk at the NY Stock Exchange in 2012. Throughout his life, he has been a student of religion and how religion ought to apply to the world outside of the synagogue, church, or mosque. Having founded a Hebrew school, he has authored articles relating to the Jewish community and the bestselling Getting Our Groove Back: How to Energize American Jewry

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In Good Faith: Questioning Religion and Atheism

Prominent atheists claim the Bible is a racist text. Yet Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. read it daily. Then again, so did many ardent segregationists. Som...

Featured on: Tuesday, October 30, 2018

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Children of Liberal Parents

Kerby AndersonDr. Leonard Sax holds a PhD in psychology and has been a family doctor for nearly 34 years. He said he never saw a connection between politics and parenting, until now. “Left-of-center p...

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Biblical Worldview

George Barna has been doing surveys of American attitudes for decades. After all these surveys, he has found that tens of thousands of adults have some elements of inconsistent thinking blended into t...

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