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Tag: Banks

ATM fees rip off $19 million from California’s public-assistance recipients

March 25, 2014 Gloria Shur Bilchik Banks, Consumer issues, Corporations, Social Sec/Medicare, States Leave a comment

Big banks lifted more than $19 million out of the wallets of poor people in California in 2012, by charging them unnecessarily high fees

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Banks should make old-fashioned loans

October 1, 2012 Arthur Lieber Business, Consumer issues, Corporations, Economy, Housing, Infrastructure, Taxes Leave a comment

Perhaps our banking crisis can be solved in part by borrowing a technique from the Affordable Health Care Act. The AHCA requires that all

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The piggy banks of Colombia

April 16, 2012 Christopher Burke Business, Economy, International One comment

They sell piggy banks on the streets of Bogotá, and I imagine across Colombia, daily.  Handmade in the red clay of Rolland Garros, these

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The costly, inconvenient financial lives of “unbanked” Americans

April 3, 2012 Gloria Shur Bilchik Charity & Justice, Consumer issues, Financial reform, Good government, Poverty, States Leave a comment

What would your life be like if you didn’t have a bank account? Ask a member of one of the 9 million American households

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Occupy Wall Street

September 27, 2011 Madonna Gauding Financial reform Leave a comment

On Saturday, September 17, an estimated 2,000 activists gathered in One Liberty Plaza in New York City’s financial district to protest the “greed and

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Thanks, President Obama: Credit-card holders get a better deal

November 23, 2010 Gloria Shur Bilchik Good government, Obama Leave a comment

Don’t believe ‘em when they say the progressive agenda is unloved by American citizens. Much has been accomplished in the first two years of

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The public option for banking

March 29, 2010 Madonna Gauding Economy, Good government, Government 2 comments

The Bank of North Dakota (BND) is owned and operated by the state of North Dakota, and is the only publicly owned bank in

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