'Finance' Category

Fight ‘Fraud’ with Vandalism!

This seems to be the suggestion over at http://www.merchantfraud.org/, a web site offering stickers to those who feel they need them in order to combat the inappropriate practice of requiring a minimum purchase amount in order to use a credit card. Worried that stickers are a little too easy to remove? Based on the FAQ, [...]

posted in Finance, Scam by admin

    • Look Ma, No Hands!

    Maybe you have been to a bank before that required you to give up a thumb print when cashing a check. Perhaps you felt a little put out for having to go through this for any number of reasons. Well, you should count yourself lucky. At least you have thumbs, unlike Mr. Valdez who was [...]

    posted in Finance, Politics by admin

    • Own It to Foreclose It

    That is the ‘dangerous precedent’ a Brooklyn born and raised judge has been setting down in the midst of our troubled economic times, according to this New York Times article. How dare he, a supreme court judge, expect that such important financial institutions as Deutsche Bank or Wells Fargo have evidence of their ownership of [...]

    posted in Finance by admin

    • Bank Bailout Profits

    I find it hard to believe that it has been a year since the controversial bailouts, but apparently it has been that long. Another surprise is that banks are actually paying money back as they were supposed to, and there is profit. A pretty good bit of profit, at that.
    From the New York Times at [...]

    posted in Finance, Politics by admin

     
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