I’ve never gotten along well with Banks of any kind, but especially with those larger, faceless National Institutions of organized robbery.

For a long time I suspected I was simply bothered, not by their aggressive profiteering (especially at the expense of the lower- and middle-class), but by their sheer duplicity – having weaseled their way into the pseudo-governmental “Federal Reserve” and eliminated a constitutionally-guaranteed inflation-free currency, they nonetheless extract levels of profit considered by most historical examples as usury – all justified by some false representation of themselves as a public service(!).

But I realized today that my distaste comes from something much more concrete, and direct.

They cheat.

Here’s a case in point: Read the rest of this entry »