During the last recession of 1999, regulations were intiated which repealed the Banking Act of 1933. In this undertaking the banks were kept out of heavily being involved in securities and insurance. If I remember correctly, this law was designed to restore confidence in the financial industry. The move was initiated to extend the opening of loans, investments to insurance. Of course some people debate abiout these initiatives until today including the respect to privacy act as consumer data were being exchanged. The needed ammendment was that consumers must then have been given the right to their personal privacy. If you look at thrid world poverty stricken countries for example, people with bad credit resort to predatory lender practices such as money stores, finance stores and even payday loans. Today, the so called telecheck services cripples one's individual right to get a loan or even open a bank account because of such report made through computer inquiries aside from the...
During the Presidential Elections of 2008, the media had a frenzie about the dresses of then VP Candidate Sarah Palin.
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