The Bankers Author:Martin Mayer What banks are doing to your money - without your knowledge and consent. If you have done business with a major American bank, you owe it to yourself to understand — * that there has been an unseen revolution in banking in the last ten years — * that the inflation that has plagued the country can be blamed in large part on unpublicized changes be... more »hind secretive banking walls
* that banks have become holding companies with the potential for control over all the nation's financial markets and have even taken over the small loan business
* that having the right connections is still worth a point or two on the interest rate - and money in your pocket
* that banks can pretend nearly forever that a borrower who is really bankrupt is still solvent - just by lending him more money
* that American banks have loaned billions to Third World countries who can never repay the loans« less