Entries Tagged as 'all ur bankz'

Bank of America: Operation GTFO

January 13th, 2012 · 1 Comment · all ur bankz

Troubled Bank of America may have to leave entire areas of the United States if financial troubles worsen. It’s called Operation GTFO.

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A Christmas Miracle – Or Not

December 5th, 2011 · 1 Comment · all ur bankz, bartertown

Because figgy pudding just doesn’t taste the same when you have to eat it out of a can, on a street corner, while huddling around a garbage can full of burning newspapers for warmth, a moratorium on foreclosures has been announced until the end of the holidays: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will not foreclose [...]

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Credit Card Companies Resort To Name-Calling

December 4th, 2011 · 8 Comments · all ur bankz, breaking news, fail

There’s an adage in marketing that you should surprise and delight your customers. I think this one qualifies as a “surprise” but not so much as a “delight”. NetSpend, a company in Austin, TX, shipped out a prepaid debit card offer to one “Asswipe Williams” in Sacramento, CA. Problem is, the dude is actually named [...]

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$BAC and The Google+ Pages Free For All

November 15th, 2011 · 1 Comment · all ur bankz, breaking news

Now that the shiny new social network Google+ is open to brand pages, there’s been something of a free-for-all during the time between when a page is built and when it is verified (and by “when”, I mean “if”, as $BAC has a verified page yet this one still stands). Which is, of course, bad [...]

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Banks, They’re So Hot Right Now

September 13th, 2011 · 2 Comments · all ur bankz

Alex Schaefer, a California artist, has tapped into some of the frustration with the financial system via a visual statement: a series of paintings of burning banks. His reasoning: Schaefer tells The Los Angeles Times that his painting is a “visual metaphor for the havoc that banking practices have caused to the economy.” Works for [...]

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