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Value Added: Mogul Ron Paul banks on networking and 'omph'

December 19, 2012

By Thomas Heath , The Washington Post

December 16, 2012

What’s left to say about local banker Ron Paul, the self-made Washington banker/real estate success who has been honored, profiled, photographed and talked about for more years than his EagleBank has been churning out profits?

We could talk about his world-class sports memorabilia collection (He’s got a baseball from the perfect game Don Larsen pitched in the 1956 World Series). Let’s not. Been there, done that.

How about his two kidney transplants? Old news.

Philanthropy? Box already checked. (His passion is the National Kidney Foundation.)

The most interesting thing to me about Paul is his rise from a hungry middle-class kid to a business lord in one of the most important cities in the world.

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