StrangeSox

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 7, 2011 -> 07:49 AM) This is like the LeBron chase all over again. So much bad info. Absolutely. I'm convinced they're just making as much stuff up as possible, someone's going to be right eventually and then they can claim they "broke" the story.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 7, 2011 -> 08:52 AM) No more of a choice than they had before according to B Remember when all those people started leaving BoA and then they dropped the fee?

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Nov 7, 2011 -> 08:24 AM) It's unreasonable, yes, but not illegal. Thankfully we have a free market where competition can choose to do the exact opposite and become a more attractive offer for our/your business. ...which is exactly what's happening now that the fees are upfront and consumers actually have a choice.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 7, 2011 -> 07:42 AM) The obvious one has gone away, but a lot of other fees have increased to make up for it. So essentially bank profitability is a one-way ratchet and it is impossible to ever push back against it.

What matters is that it's Dick Durbin's fault that these fees are now nominally transparent and that this is a bad thing (even though the "$5 a month Durbin tax!" idea has already crumbled).

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 5, 2011 -> 02:19 PM) And what Balta won't tell you is that now you are paying more because the Merchants just kept the extra money from the cut, and in most cases you are spending more where the banks have increased other fees to make up for what they, so thanks to Dick Durbans "fix" you are now paying more. Democrats in action. And there is always a free market. Cash. The banks are pulling back after the "durbin tax!!!!" meme fell flat on its face and customers saw straight through the banks' bulls***. The idea that this is somehow Durbin's/Democrats' fault because they forced hidden fees out into the open is ridiculous. edit: but to your later point, I have no doubt that they will find new ways to extract large amounts of wealth from the economy for an elite few.

It's certainly happened before.

Balta, I do believe that you have been trolled.

QUOTE (God Loves The Infantry @ Nov 6, 2011 -> 11:33 AM) I like how consistently disagreeing with the resident fruit makes me bull-headed and single-minded. If I was instead a steadfast liberal, holding such views with the same consistency that I hold conservative ones, he wouldn't say a word. But God forbid someone be consistently conservative, because refusing to submit to the all-knowing genius known as Big Sqwert is a sure sign of unholy bullheaded-ness. Pathetic. No, you are bull-headed because you routinely insult other poster's character as your way of argumentation.

QUOTE (God Loves The Infantry @ Nov 6, 2011 -> 09:05 AM) You think its a strawman that I look at OWS' issues with sexual assault, hypocrisy , violence, entitlement, greed, drug use, communism/socialism, anti-Americanism, anti-Semitism, ignorance and so forth and consider that to be baggage that absolutely ruins any positive influence and message they might have started with? I could provide multiple examples of each of these. It doesn't surprise me that you'd look fondly at a movement overrun with degenerates, but I'm not going to join you. I think this post illustrates my point nicely.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Nov 5, 2011 -> 07:11 PM) This. That's unfortunate, because it's a giant strawman.

lol

There's a whole bunch of various refutations of the myth that Fannie, Freddie and/or the CRA caused the financial crisis here

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Nov 2, 2011 -> 06:30 AM) I don't seem to recall the press being this interested in a sex scandal when you had a Presidential contender screwing around on his sick wife. There were even details in that one, and no confidentiality agreements to get in the way. Remember when they covered up Weiner's sending of a pic of his dong and definitely didn't make it one of the biggest news stories for at least a week?

extracted from the nom. thread: QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 3, 2011 -> 04:11 PM) I really don't want to know what "Stuff" this guy has. Grow up and ignore sexual harassment settlements? Congrats North Chicago Suburbs. deadbeat dad Joe Walsh receives "pro-family" award from the Family Research Council

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Nov 4, 2011 -> 12:43 PM) I think its a very good method - because I think part of the problem with Sox hitters last year was sphincter factor. Dunn in particular needs to take fewer marginal pitches. Aren't the Sox routinely at the bottom of the list of "pitches per AB"? They don't need to be swinging at more marginal pitches.

Or neither

Free Trade Deal in Action: Milwaukee Firm Seeks $100 Million From El Salvador Govt.

QUOTE (Tex @ Nov 3, 2011 -> 08:45 PM) Just received a call from Cain. Why? It's frickin' Nov 3 in TEXAS?? He either has too much cash or not enough brains. Don't be spending money in Texas in November. Was it just heavy breathing into the receiver?

Well we already know he's a deadbeat.

Interesting graphic of the history of the big banks:

I must have opted into a beta or something because I've had this look for months now.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Nov 2, 2011 -> 12:21 PM) Haha...I'm not sure I ever see a board upgrade happening unless someone that knows what they are doing volunteers to do it. I already volunteered kap