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Who Killed 21 Georgia Banks?

Aug 21st, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Macro Economics
“It does gall you. Just because we're a little bitty county doesn't mean we don't need a bank. It wasn't our fault." -- Hazel Bedingfield, 79, who now travels 24 miles for her Social Security payment at her new bank You deposit your paycheck on Friday and can’t get money out on ...read more

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Bank Accounting Fudges Loan Losses

Aug 13th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies
Investors often assume dangerous, unnecessary risks by owning stocks on the basis of sloppy economic and financial analysis. For each stock you own, you should frequently reassess the reasons for owning it. Also, you need to remain on the lookout for signals that the future operating environment for a particular ...read more

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Hologram Tam & the Great Global Banking Swindle

Oct 16th, 2007 | By | Category: Currencies
"If forgery were a question of quantity as well as quality, the world's entire private banking system would be queuing up for porridge tomorrow morning." THOMAS McANEA was a drunk, an ex-con freed on a technicality, and a failed businessman with barely two pennies to rub together, according to the Scottish ...read more

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