Mar 17 2010
The Anti-Savings Model – Offer 0.1% APY on Savings Accounts and Charge 15% on Credit Cards. A System Designed to Punish Savers and Encourage Extravagant Spending via Usury.
U.S. Banks have a solid incentive, dipped in gold, to keep people in a perpetual state of paying rent on debt while not saving a shiny penny. In fact, their ideal state of financial equilibrium for Americans would be one in which people spent every single penny from their earnings reaching the end of the [...]
Mar 15 2010
The Weakest Bang for our Wilting Dollar – How we Overpaid for the Bailouts and were left with a Wilting Economy Propped up by Government Spending. Paying $446,000 Per Loan Modification and $43,000 for Homes that were already going to be Purchased.
So much horrible policy has occurred since the economy entered recession that the majority of Americans are shell shocked with each day of news. It used to be that a billion dollars in toxic assets was enough to garner some movement out of the market. Now, we talk about trillion dollar deficits as if they [...]
