Political Irony

If your house was foreclosed on in 2009 or 2010, you can ask for a free review and receive compensation if there were any errors made: The bottom line is there is a website you can visit to see your options. Try to ignore the fact that the website looks pretty cheesy — it is [...]

Lost in all the brouhaha about Mitt Romney’s gaffe-o-rama in England is the fact that one of the main things he did while in London is hold a fundraising dinner in a foreign city, where scandal-plagued international bankers paid $25,000 to $75,000 a plate to support his election campaign. That’s right. Romney is explicitly asking [...]

© Tom Toles We know what the problem is, and we know how to fix it. Will we have the guts and political will? Or will the car wrecks continue?

Once upon a time, the media thought of itself as a watchdog. Now they just work for the banks, like everyone else. Adam Savage of Mythbusters, with a myth he wasn’t allowed to bust:

Last week, the largest bank in the US admitted that it had made a very stupid and risky investment and had lost an incredible $2 billion. What makes this ironic is that JP Morgan has been one of the strongest voices arguing against regulations on banks. Indeed, Morgan had weathered the 2008 financial meltdown relatively [...]

© Jerry Holbert In the month since Bank of America announced it would start charging a monthly $5 for using debit cards, an amazing 650,000 Americans joined credit unions. That’s more (in one month) than the number of people who signed up for credit unions in all of 2010. According to the Credit Union National [...]

A Florida couple bought a house in 2009 and paid for it with cash, so they were a bit surprised when Bank of America tried to foreclose on their house, even though they had no mortgage at all. Unfortunately, they had to hire a lawyer to straighten out the problem with Bank of America, and [...]