Comments on: Congress Eases Bank Laws – 1999

By: Banks Hoping they Paid Politicians Enough to Protect Billions in Excessive Fees at Curious Cat Investing and Economics Blog

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 02:50:08 +0000

[...] Other countries provide debit cards with much cheaper fees than USA banks mandate now given their anti-competitive oligopolistic pricing power. I haven’t seen anyone not in the pay of banks arguing for keeping excessive fees in place. [...]

By: CuriousCat: Failure to Regulate Financial Markets Leads to Predictable Consequences

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 21:27:58 +0000

It seems to me the situation that lead to the current economic problems are due to the overthrown of the Glass-Steagal and other long time sensible regulation put in place to restrict economy wide destruction caused by a few large financial firms…