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In your piece "How to Fix It," you should have added "No. 5: Require that banks and mortgage companies hold all new mortgages for at least five years before they can sell them." If there had been such a regulation in effect during the housing bubble, I guarantee there would...
Some senators were agitated, too. There was heavy talk of legislative action starting in September when it was reported that banks expected to draw $38.5 billion this year in “overdraft protection services,” 90 percent of which was coming from 10 percent of checking accounts...
Big banks were less enthusiastic about changing the rules. In a year when the economy was slumping and consumer spending was way down, overdraft fees had become more profitable than traditional banking for half of America’s banks. After losing more than $300 million in the third quarter...
Following months of criticism from consumer advocacy groups, the Federal Reserve, which is the body in charge of regulating this sort of activity, finally got its act together and issued a new set of rules last Thursday restricting overdraft services to come into effect July 1. In case you missed...
Some Americans, and certainly the banks, don’t see a need for tighter regulation of credit and/or debit cards. If people can’t stop themselves from spending money at the mall, they should have to suffer the consequences, even if the shape those consequences might take...