Silent Servants...

Silent Servants...

... of the Used, Abused, and Utterly Screwed Up.

A Secular Franciscan looks at the world...
with a more jaundiced eye than ever...
and lots of ellipses for you to fill in the missing text...
(with thanks to Thomas S. Klise for the title)



Sunday, May 04, 2008

You know...


Regulators zero in on credit card reform

Every once in a while politicians have to look at businesses that are very obviously ripping off the electorate and try to do something to help the little person. You can be sure that it won't hurt the businesses too much, but sometimes a little bit of the help gets through to the person at the bottom. Sometimes. And when this happens in the U.S. it eventually filters up to Canada.

Credit card companies behave in the same way that politicians used to claim the mafia did, re: interest rates, but they've never tried to stop them.

What are the odds that something good will come of this?

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