Stephen Lendman’s Articles
- Blood in the Streets in Occupied Palestine September 18, 2015
- Near Zero Percent Federal Funds Rate Since December 2008 September 18, 2015
- Republicans Again Fail to Block Iran Nuclear Deal September 18, 2015
- Iceland Boycotts Israel September 18, 2015
- Irresponsible US China Bashing September 17, 2015
Bottom line is you are right it is very sad, We need to stop hurting each other. The banks are crying about possibly losing $20.5 billion dollars because the new consumer safety bill will reduce their profit from debit card transactions from $0.44 to $0.12 per transaction. The Banks could probably cover that if they […]
In addition to the fees they charge for loans, fees (often 20+%) they charge on credit cards, fees they charge for checking accounts, Bank of America, J P Morgan Chase, U S Bancorp, Citigroup make $20.5 billion off of the use of debit cards. This $20.5 billion is “free money.” The debit cards automatically transfer […]
The last thing GW did was to pass on to the banks a free, no strings, no oversight gift of $700,000,000,000 [that’s $700 billion] of your hard earned tax dollars. Because we did not actually have any $$$ in the bank, as it were, he borrowed the money from the Chinese to do it. You […]
There are several new phones coming out next year that will have RFID stickers on them, enabling you to pay for your purchases with just a swipe of your cell phone. It all sounds convenient until you learn that retailers want access to your cellphones and social networks for marketing purposes. When users pay for […]