Bundled services platforms enable banks to strengthen their roles as lenders and create a sophisticated home equity lending environment. Home equity loans and lines of credit continue to rise in popularity, and so does the...

He tried to read an elementary economics text; it bored him past endurance, it was like listening to somebody interminably recounting a long and stupid dream. He could not force himself to understand how banks...

The acquisition by dishonest means and cunning,’ said Levin, feeling that he was incapable of clearly defining the borderline between honesty and dishonesty. ‘Like the profits made by banks,’ he went on. ‘This is evil,...

Do you understand what I’m saying?”shouted Moist. “You can’t just go around killing people!””Why Not? You Do.” The golem lowered his arm.”What?” snapped Moist. “I do not! Who told you that?””I Worked It Out. You...

There is a risk that if China liberalizes the foreign exchange system when the banks need to be recapitalized, there could be trauma in the system. My impression is that the Chinese are going to...

The Mississippi River is like immigration–it’s enormously nourishing . . . but if it floods its banks, it can become a problem. And that is what’s happened here.

It’s the punitive fees that are escalating so quickly. What some banks are doing now is cutting the cost of the first bounced check so the guy who bounces a check once in a while...

And the banks – hard to believe in a time when we’re facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created – are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And they frankly...

The name of the game in Turkey has been conglomerates and the banks. But we feel that’s not where the future returns are going to come from.

In the same way that central banking nearly wrecked the world and created one calamity after another, bitcoin can save the world one transaction at a time.It is time for a new beginning.

Small banks play such a vital role in their home markets and their communities,

All the mega corporations on the planet make their obscene profits off the labor and suffering of others, with complete disregard for the effects on the workers, environment, and future generations. As with the banking...

The international banks are facing enormous pressure to get people on the ground in Russia. The market keeps going up, the number of international investors keeps rising and this looks to continue next year.

By closing out competition from discount brokers and banks, consumers are forced to pay high commissions with little opportunity to shop around for a better deal. With housing prices at an all-time high, there is...

And $18 million in three Japanese banks, completely false. That I have two factories in Panama, also completely false. This is part of the counter campaign of some people.

Money is a servant to politicians and the country.But, if the politicians and the country become the servant of the money, the politicians has failed.

Most of the decline came from the banks. Banks have run up the last several weeks and part of the reason (for the fall today) was profit-taking.

The consumer loan business has been regarded as a good source of revenues for major banks … the problem is that we don’t know how this issue will be resolved.

It’s just a greater opportunity with more banks and longer hours.

Student loans being run by the banks. The banks are in on the deal now.

All major banks offer [online bill pay], but consumer awareness is not very high.

The position on banks and insurance has not changed. We consider their opening as impossible.

It’s too early to say whether that (the gains) is going to continue but in the meantime, the banks have been firm for the last couple of days and that’s quite helpful because the banks...

Big banks…don’t know how to underwrite these loans. New immigrants come here with nothing, for two to three years they work very hard and then they buy first home in America. It’s not easy for...

The Fed’s cutting rates more than other banks are cutting rates, the United States is cutting taxes more than other governments are able to and is getting more stimulus from defense spending, … We won’t...

The male function is to produce sperm. We now have sperm banks.

The months of October and November were terrific for Jefferson Parish — on both banks of the river. They were selling record numbers.

You could carve out the inside of a brick and hide your money in it for safe keeping. It’s certainly safer than keeping it in the bank!

The banks are absolutely not under control.

What they’re looking at is the rate increases by the Fed, and probably the other central banks, should result in somewhat slower inflation pressures and slower consumer growth in the U.S., which markets would like...

This lending has been lucrative to banks here. The housing market has been vibrant.

I feel very comfortable with where we are with the Hudson United conversion that we could look at banks right now.

My bank must stop trying to sell me identity theft protection. You know why I expect you to protect my money? Because you’re a bank.

Chinese banks may want to buy yen and see if they can get a good return on shares in Japan.

By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.

He became convinced that ordinary commercial financing could be done for a service charge plus an insurance fee amounting to much less that the current rates of interest charged by banks, whose rates were based...

Parent banks’ stakeholders are not necessarily the same as those of their subsidiaries. Moreover, their interests may diverge, especially during a crisis.

I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a...

The drug war is a total scam, prescription drugs kill 300K a year, while marijuana kills no one, but they spend billions/year ‘fighting’ it, because pot heads make for good little slaves to put into...

Foreign central banks are doing precisely the same thing — and in much larger magnitudes than our own Federal Reserve. Therefore we should be focusing a lot more on the influence that they are having...

Merger mania is making the fee-gouging big banks even bigger, … Worse, fewer and bigger banks means consumers face fewer choices, less competition and even higher fees.

Myth: US housing market is in recovery. Fact: Big banks have been hiding their bloated home inventory, seized by virtue of home foreclosures.

Marcus Banks had three years here, to play, and he had three coaches (Jim O’Brien, John Carroll, Doc Rivers) that weren’t real excited about him. I think Marcus is a good player, but I don’t...

We’re one of the banks in the Hudson Valley that can do any deal, no matter how large, no matter how small.

In the 1990s, the state banks shoveled those deposits to inefficient state companies. The end result was a large number of nonperforming loans.

Banks do not create money for the public good. They are businesses owned by private shareholders. Their purpose is to make a profit.

Profitability at banks was not as good as we expected and retailers won’t have any more occasion to register big sales until Spring.

There are restrictions on city commercial banks on where they can operate… But through merging together, they can expand their business scales.

Banks are centralizing lots of customer service stuff, which gives you the economies of scale, and a better, more consistent process as well. That improves customer retention.

There is long-term confidence for continuing growth in Japan’s economy. Loans and fee income for banks should grow.