Comments on: Huffington Calls For Big Bank Boycott

By: jack gordon

jack gordon — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 12:23:49 +0000

Great plan . The stock are up 80% . IS YOUR 401K PLAN UP BY THE SAME AMOUNT . Do you still believe a banker ? Insider selling at all time high, yet they tell you to buy .Keep placing your money with crooks you will come to a point, that it will be lost in a glitch.

By: kirsten sogge

kirsten sogge — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 18:42:50 +0000

I withdrew my savings from Wells Fargo, took my money out of the stock market, well, 90% of it, and switched to a local Savings Bank last summer. If we all did this, what would happen?

By: Schedule

Schedule — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 02:05:36 +0000

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By: Alina

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By: REH12

REH12 — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:16:20 +0000

Take a look at credit unions. they provide excellent services at fair fees. better yet they invest your money locally. ing, etc, ships it out of the area. all politics is local, so should all banking decisions gbe made with LOCAL in mind.

By: jg

jg — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:37:23 +0000

I don’t keep money in big banks because of this. Schwab, Discover Bank and ING all pay much better (still crap – under 1.5%, but a lot better than .01%).

Better still, you can get I-bonds at savingsbonds.gov that are paying 3.3% PLUS some tax benefits (no state tax on the interest, federal tax is deferred).

By: Mike M

Mike M — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:20:04 +0000

I like the general idea….

But the moveyourmoney.info website has terrible advice for implementing it. The vast majority of banks they suggest for me are Fifth Third branches. Fifth Third nearly went under because of bad mortgage loans and needed a federal bailout to recover. So if I move my money there and get 0.25% for “high yield” savings, how is this helping? I’m just supporting one of the problem banks.

By: Terrin

Terrin — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 04:07:16 +0000

I think the taking money out of the three biggest banks is a good plan. First, they were the biggest offenders. Second, they have the most lobby power. Third, they offer the lowest interests rates on savings. I have an account at Chase. I am going to close my account this weekend.

By: Boy Cott

Boy Cott — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:06:13 +0000

A run on the savings in banks will not send the right message. What is needed is a mortgage boycott month.

Every bank is complicit in the scheme to scam Americans out of their life savings. Proof: If this were not true it would not be a case where a bank that is holding a note for a home that cost $200K in 2004 could not refinance it because they say it is now only comp’d to foreclosures at $100K. So you, Mr. Taxpayer not only paid way too much for it when we told you it was worth that, but now we will slap you down again by making you either go to foreclosure or be forced to short sell. In either case the bank is getting the write-off and bailout at the taxpayer expense.

If a NATIONAL MORTGAGE BOYCOTT MONTH is planned and executed for MARCH 2010 where every mortgage holder stops auto-payments and withholds the mortgage for 30 days and waits until the next billing cycle it will send a clear message to banks that we are done with bending over while they post huge profits and are taking bonuses while their jump to push the panic button has left the country crippled. Let them wonder for a while just how many may decide to not make any future payments.

Simultaneously the government needs a wakeup call by sending a letter explaining to reps that we don’t trust or want any money going to bail out banks. The simple remedy is to put the control in the hands of individuals not hand-picked insider special interests by 1. Allowing a one time pay down of mortgages from 401K/IRA without taxes or penalties. 2. Mandating in law that Short-Sales can not be reported by lenders as less than “paid as agreed”.