[SeekAndFind]

Jimmy Stewart as George Bailey n It's a Wonderful Life

[stanne]

Pottersvillw

[Olog-hai]

Hmm. Since “Harry” is a diminutive of “Henry”, then Henry Potter = Harry Potter?

[Common Sense 101]

What’s easier to control? 8-10 national banks or thousands of independent regional or local banks?

[DJ MacWoW]

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[madison10]

Darn it! I LIKE my small banks.

[Tupelo]

Well, they killed the Savings & Loans 25 years ago, so I guess it is just the next step to kill off the small banks.
Progress, you know.
Funny thing 30 years ago I could and did go into a local savings& loan, buy a rundown property with not much more than my pretty face. Then fix up the property, pay off the loan, make a few bucks for myself. Do that once or twice every five years and you could have a pretty nice little nest egg. By 1990, that door was closed as tight as a vault and that pretty much took the small guy out of the fix & flip business

[LegendHasIt]

Every time a bell rings...
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A Goldman-Sachs-er gets his delivery of Federal Reserve FIAT.

[WashingtonSource]

bump

[dfwgator]

I preferred the "Lost Ending"

[taildragger]

The Solution? well sort of...

State Banks, North Dakota was the only one for a while, Vermont just voted one in and Hopefully soon Michigan gets one. It is rumored it will spawn a new generation of Community Banks after it is established. Their is hope against Dodd Frank as the expert that spoke to our group noted they would be exempt from that lunacy...