Showing posts with label Banks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Banks. Show all posts

Sunday, March 24, 2013

Not Too Big To Attack

Community bankers call for big banks to be split up - St. Louis Business Journal
The Independent Community Bankers of America stepped up its public campaign against big banks this week.

It said so-called too-big-to-fail financial institutions get a taxpayer-funded advantage over smaller banks, receive favorable treatment from regulators, and should be downsized and split up...

Thursday, March 14, 2013

A Truly Awful Bank Tale

Wells Fargo Bills Elderly Disabled Veteran To Death Over Typo
Every day, we wake up thinking that we cannot possibly dislike the banks (and their enablers) more than we did them the day before, and most of the days we are right, and our fear and loathing glides along on a steady keel. But once in a while we are proven wrong and learn of something so horrible that we are forced to critically examine our current stance towards the banks (and their enablers), and inevitably conclude that the intensity of our feelings requires revisiting...