With all the recent changes in the banking and credit card industries, you're bound to get more than a few e-mails or letters from your bank or credit card company.
But, wait. Was that last e-mail really from your bank? It might have been, but there's a pretty good chance it might not have been.
Explaining what the banks don't want you to know may shatter most of the public's religiously entrenched assumptions about money and banking. What the general public "thinks" it knows about money and banking is largely based upon a collection of canards gleaned from TV, radio, newspapers and their own personal experiences with money and banking.
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Bank robberies are more common than you may think. If you find yourself in the middle of a robbery, following a few simple rules will help you survive the incident and perhaps catch the robber.
Despite government efforts to help home-owners keep their homes, the foreclosure crisis continues to ravage towns and neighbourhoods throughout the country.
It’s no secret that the last few years have been brutal for the banking industry. But nothing paints a better picture of the industry’s carnage than our latest infographic on bank closures over the past 10 years.
Each quarter, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation releases the number of banks it feels might need to be bailed out by the government. This is a look at the number of problem banks on the FDIC list for the first quarter of the last 10 years, along with the total assets controlled by those banks.
Banks, lenders and card companies are fickle; they want your money; nay, thrive off your money, but push them too far and they are happy to discard you like a sweet wrapper. It's a fine line, balancing precariously between financial solvency and having a credit rating so poor, not even your grandmother would lend you a few bucks.