The simple truth is our giant banking system is metastasizing throughout our economy. It’s sucking away our wealth. And it’s out of control. August 14, 2012 sample quote: “Every time a bank is caught in one of these scandals (and every big bank has been caught), they point to the...
In Hong Kong the atm fee was only a $1 so it made more sense to withdraw from the atm because of the fee but also because Ally bank doesn’t charge a high exchange fee. Chase is not a good foreign travel account but HSBC and IBC are for South East Asia. I opened a Chase ...
I for one would like to go back to the days of the 1980’s when I knew my bank president personally, but he and all of his fellows were all bought out in consolidations 20 years ago. What a shame. The banker knowing the customer worked pretty well. 3-D October 12, 2009 at 3:22...
My first job was as a bank clerk in Carlisle. Many things have changed since I was last there, including the pillars of stability in the city centre which we thought would never change. Lloyds Bank is now a pizza place; Midland Bank (HSBC) is now a pub; and the Malt Shovel pub is ...
t Thomas Geitner at Vodafone was persuaded to cut the five-year contract he had at Mannesmann, bought by Vodafone, for a three-year contract running to June 2004. He will have a one- year deal after that. t Stewart Cline at George Wimpey has a three-year service contract that can't...
Nov. 6. HSBC bankconfirms compromise of some accounts of U.S. customers. It says intruders accessed account numbers and balances, statement and transaction histories, and payee details, as well as users’ names, addresses and dates of birth. It adds fewer than one percent of Amer...
There are feature of housing bubbles in So Cal that are characteristic of the “up” cycle of the bubble, house flippers, large percentages of homes bought as investments and not to live in, housing moving out into regions hours away from where people work, etc. It’s more than just a ...