Check Cashing

Mackonomics: 1 Recession = Millions of Financial Leeches to Suck You Dry!

Ryan Mack | Posted 10.14.2009 | Business


Ryan Mack

With an economy that is in a recession that feels like a depression in many cities across the country ... the sharks (financial predators) are in the water.

"Unbanked" Citizens Increasingly Targeted By Big Companies And Payday Lenders

washingtonpost.com | Ylan Q. Mui | Posted 10.13.2009 | Business


For years, the country's makeshift network of payday lenders and check cashers has operated with little competition or federal regulation. ...

Payday Loans: Large Banks Push High-Interest Loans On Their Customers

startribune.com | CHRIS SERRES, Star Tribune | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business


A few of the nation's largest banks -- including Minneapolis-based U.S. Bancorp, Wells Fargo & Co. of San Francisco, and Fifth Third Bancorp of Cincin...

Poverty in America: The Problems and Solutions

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 11.21.2008 | Business


Vivian Norris de Montaigu

We need to make communities strong again. Our local money does not need to be mixed in with some guy's hedge fund abstract tranche of nothing all to make a fee for some banker in New York.