What’s high on the hit list in Washington DC today? The new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which was created to defend you from lying and predatory lenders. The financial industry hates the bureau and wants it gone. Their lobbyists and legislators couldn’t stop it from being enacted into law. Now, they’re trying to cripple it [...]
What Jane Says: Government
What should you do to guarantee yourself access to future medical care? If you’re under 55, talk to your parents or your grandparents. They hold the votes that will decide whether your options will be as good as theirs.
The Republicans, in a recent House budget resolution, offered seniors and Boomers a breathtaking deal. The [...]
Stay with your stocks, is the message that investors are getting from some key market and economic forecasters. They’re betting that the economy can stand up by itself, as the government cuts its budget and the stimulus programs gradually wind down.
Not that there isn’t plenty to worry about: high gasoline prices, unfinished revolutions in the [...]
- Will the banks really hit you with debit card fees? Maybe not
- POSTED 03.26.11
The big banks are threatening to hit you with fees for using your debit card. JPMorgan Chase fired the first shot across the bow last week, by canceling its debit-card rewards program.
Why is this happening? Because the banks lost an epic battle with retailers, which will force them to slash the fees they collect on [...]
Is Wall Street reform already dead? The bankers and other gazillionaires are back in the driver’s seat, in Washington D.C. For you and me, that means taking a more conservative stance with our personal money. Unbridled speculation and financial deceit brought us the Great Economic Collapse of 2008. If the new Congress undermines the Dodd-Frank [...]
