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What's Worse: Stingy Banks or Thrifty Consumers? - The Curious ...

2010-03-11

There have been a lot of people blabbing on for the past few months about the new found thriftiness of the American consumer. The savings rate is up, and credit card balances are down.

Mar

Do Conrad and Durbin Just Love Banks, Or Really Hate Students ...

2010-03-11

The push by lobbyists of Citibank, JP Morgan, Sallie Mae and other student lenders to kill student loan reform is working. Kent Conrad is trying to keep the President's plan from going through reconciliation this year, which means it ...

Mar

Go bowling for neighborhood food banks

2010-03-11

The event hopes to raise money and awareness for the group's Food Security for Children program, which keeps Seattle-area food banks (including Ballard, Greenwood, Phinney Ridge Lutheran and the Wallingford Family Works food banks) ...

Mar

John Rentoul - Clegg and the banks, part 2

2010-03-11

I seem to have confused everyone by taking issue with Nick Clegg's seeing a parallel between the conduct of the banks today and that of the trade unions before the 1980s reforms. Clegg told The Spectator that the British economy ...

Mar

Have The Big Banks Had Their Run?

2010-03-11

These big name banks are worth watching as long-term winners.

Mar

George Selgin on Central Banks | Contrarian Musings

2010-03-11

George Selgin has a new paper out titled, Central Banks as Sources of Financial Instability. An exerpt: The present financial crisis has set in bold relief.

Mar

Metro on the high street, look out banks! - Walletpop UK

2010-03-11

Rather than simply have a row of tellers sitting behind glass which you approach from the ranks of an orderly queue, the bank entrance is an open lobby with rows of cash machines and a staff of one helpful woman. ...

Mar

Euro MPs demand 'Robin Hood tax' on banks | World Development Movement

2010-03-11

Last month the campaign for a global tax on banks' financial transactions was launched as a way of raising money to fight poverty, tackle climate change and boost public services. The Robin Hood tax is a way to re-balance the books ...

Mar

Reserve Banks Accuses Major Australian Banks | TopNews New Zealand

2010-03-11

The RBA, in an analysis of rate movements, posted that the major banks committed the offends on excess pricing, with lending rates surpassing rises in funding costs by up to 25 basis points - or a quarter of 1 per cent - since the onset ...

Mar

Vanguard News Online

2010-03-11

In a statement issued, Thursday, they said “The proposed categorisation of banks which Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, the CBN Governor is set to introduce into the Nigerian banking system is nothing but a recipe that will cause confusion in the ...

Mar