Many countries currently offer banking with their local post offices.
This was already a thing in the United States from 1911 to 1967 when the US Post Office offered some basic banking and lending services.
Currently the US Post Office can only cash Treasury checks and issue money orders, but if Postal Banking returns, it would be a non profit banking option that provides a variety of banking and lending services.
This was already a thing in the United States from 1911 to 1967 when the US Post Office offered some basic banking and lending services.
Currently the US Post Office can only cash Treasury checks and issue money orders, but if Postal Banking returns, it would be a non profit banking option that provides a variety of banking and lending services.
If interest rates get capped at the proposed 15%, won’t banks just refuse to lend to new/high risk clients?
Probably, but Postal Banking is non profit and as such can offer low-cost low-dollar loans at rates that banks don’t want to.
Probably, but Postal Banking is non profit and as such can offer low-cost low-dollar loans at rates that banks don’t want to.
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"We decided to break the bank this winter and take a 6 week vacation to Australia and the South Pacific."
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Get the Facebook Spank Bank mug.Any one of the million or so neat neck-tie New York or London or San Fran bankers, traders, and/or financial types who troll otherwise hipster, posh bars or clubs claiming to actually be interested in art, culture, and the human condition when hitting on women otherwise way out of their league but for their singular monetary standing.
Usually spawned from ivy league Universities.
Usually spawned from ivy league Universities.
Attractive Girl #1: I love that film, can't believe it's been so long since I've seen it.
Attractive Girl #2: It was on IFC last night, I didn't even know I got the channel.
Wanker Banker: As much as I agree, I still think the book was better.
Attractive Girl #2: It's a documentary, ass.
(Wanker Banker shrugs, pretends to see some friends, angles towards the bar)
Attractive Girl #1: Fucking wank-bank.
or
Simone: What're they gonna do?
Marlene: I dunno, go back to her place.
Wanker-banker: My flat's not far from here, has a terrace with a view of the city.
Simon: Good for you.
Wanker Banker: I'm just sayin'-
Marlene: Dear gawd, this is the worst night of my life. We officially look like coke whores. Why else would a wanker banker assume he and his cheese dick button down could summon us to his apartment via cuff links and slacks ?
Simone: What a fucktard.
Attractive Girl #2: It was on IFC last night, I didn't even know I got the channel.
Wanker Banker: As much as I agree, I still think the book was better.
Attractive Girl #2: It's a documentary, ass.
(Wanker Banker shrugs, pretends to see some friends, angles towards the bar)
Attractive Girl #1: Fucking wank-bank.
or
Simone: What're they gonna do?
Marlene: I dunno, go back to her place.
Wanker-banker: My flat's not far from here, has a terrace with a view of the city.
Simon: Good for you.
Wanker Banker: I'm just sayin'-
Marlene: Dear gawd, this is the worst night of my life. We officially look like coke whores. Why else would a wanker banker assume he and his cheese dick button down could summon us to his apartment via cuff links and slacks ?
Simone: What a fucktard.
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Get the wanker banker mug.A very foul fart that was perfectly timed, just as a banking deposit is made at the drive up window.
The most tasteless version of this involves driving a nasty fart into the deposit canister before sending it to the teller.
The most tasteless version of this involves driving a nasty fart into the deposit canister before sending it to the teller.
"I opened an account at the bank where my ex-wife works just so I can grace her with the occasional bank biscuit".
by sluggo699 February 16, 2009
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American actress Kristen Stewart has now made not one, but two, yes two, French films. Probably on the advice of her agents and handlers she has subsequently done the following :
1) shaved her head (like Sinead O'Connor);
2) dyed it blonde (like Annie Lennox);
3) and entered what appears to be her first serious lesbian/same sex relationship (like any number of American female expats of the last century).
I suspect before long she will also be sporting a Parisian accent, opening a salon, quoting Baudelaire, Cocteau, and Satre' incessantly, and complaining endlessly about all those bourgeoise, materialistic Americans who care only for money and nothing for art. Like Gwyneth Paltrow and so many others before, Kristen Stewart has become a left bank cowboy.
1) shaved her head (like Sinead O'Connor);
2) dyed it blonde (like Annie Lennox);
3) and entered what appears to be her first serious lesbian/same sex relationship (like any number of American female expats of the last century).
I suspect before long she will also be sporting a Parisian accent, opening a salon, quoting Baudelaire, Cocteau, and Satre' incessantly, and complaining endlessly about all those bourgeoise, materialistic Americans who care only for money and nothing for art. Like Gwyneth Paltrow and so many others before, Kristen Stewart has become a left bank cowboy.
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Get the left bank cowboy mug.Similar to clam baking, but instead of hot boxing your car or other small space (such as a shed, porta-potty, etc.), you and your friends haze up a small banking booth. Very illegal and extremely hard to pull off because you have to insert your own bank ID card to gain access to the booth, and because there is almost always a security camera in the booth. This only makes things more exciting, and is definitely something worth bragging about if you can pull it off somehow.
NOTE: It is not necessary to withdraw funds from your account while clam banking, but it can add some fun to your experience as you struggle to remember your password while smoke floats in front of your face.
NOTE: It is not necessary to withdraw funds from your account while clam banking, but it can add some fun to your experience as you struggle to remember your password while smoke floats in front of your face.
The other day I was riding around with Johnny and two bitches and we were looking for a place to smoke. We saw a Bank of America booth in a parking lot and went clam banking. The booth was so smoked up we couldn't even see the security camera!
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