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The real profit to be made in robbing banks is if you’re the bank doing the robbing.
As soon as you give a bank your money, they create fees so they don’t have to give it
back. So if you deposit five dollars, they’ll create a five dollar fee for only having five
dollars. They’ll call it a “low amount” fee. You should have had six. Of course, then
it would be a six dollar fee. This is a good system…if you’re a bank.
When I was a kid, banks used to give you toasters to open an account. They wanted your business.
They treated their customers like customers. Of course, there was more regulation and more
competition. With all the bank mergers going on, soon there will just be the Fed and one
big commercial bank with an investing subsidiary left standing, neither of which our government
will control. Nowadays banks treat their customers like
a *** to be milked. They are to be *** and pillaged. Customers are something banks
tolerate. Customers are to be exploited. If they’re dumb enough to pay one fee, maybe
they’ll pay two. And meanwhile, the bank will be gambling with your money.
Every time I go into a bank, I expect the teller to produce a gun and say, “Stick
‘em up!” They charge interest rates larger than Louie the loan shark and break you if
you fail to repay in ways that Louie can only dream about. There are no usury laws. Who
needs ‘em? Bank lobbyists have managed to re-legislate
most of the 1933 banking act, except for FDIC insurance. They like that. After all, if they’re
going to gamble with depositor’s money, somebody has to pay for it.
Now JP Morgan Chase is on their way to losing 2.5, maybe 3 billion dollars. They call it
hedging because if they called it what it really was, it would be illegal. If only we’d
let them regulate themselves. They wouldn’t break any more laws because there wouldn’t
be any. I’m James Tripp and I’ll be back with
another Trippitorial.