Message from @Tiamatfleisch
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one of his proposals, post office banking, was something the U.S. used to do
there was a Postal Savings System from 1911 to 1967
Are you fucking kidding me? We have that in privatized form for like 25 years.
define "we"
I assume you're not American
By we I mean my country.
yes, I researched it and a bunch of European countries still have postal banking
Postal banking is also the only option if you blew it with the credit union. I didn't know that the US got rid of it. In fact, I figured it was something unique that only my country has.
it used to be fairly common
but it looks like the U.S. and other countries abolished it because it was cutting into the banksters' profits
How dastardly.
if you have a postal banking system with high interest rates, no minimum deposit amount, no monthly fees etc., people are gonna choose it over the shitty mainstream banks that make you pay $25 a month or some gay shit like that
in the U.S. we have credit unions, thankfully
I've used one for over a decade
but their services are limited (for example, my credit union doesn't have an IBAN/SWIFT code, meaning getting international deposits/wires is a pain in the ass)
25 fucking benis management fee? They gotta be kidding. No IBAN also got to be a fucking joke.
in fairness to my credit union, I'm probably the only customer they have that lives overseas
credit unions are typically designed only to cover a small geographic area (in my case, my home city and the surrounding counties)
and yes, I was looking into bank accounts for my new business and Bank of America charges a $25/month maintenance fee
I have a bank account here in Georgia that charges a $0.80/month fee which is more reasonable
Even the credit union I am with has IBAN and so does the shit bydlo bank for naive twats. Must because they are part of a huge chain that combines many Credit unions together. Sure, you have to dissolve your account if you are move to another region and open a new account in your new hometown if you want full service.
yeah, there's no such thing as a "credit union chain" in the U.S.
they're all independent operators
the trade-off of no minimum balance, no account maintenance fees etc. is that they skimp on services that big national banks have
At least its not either the only credit union (by brand) or retard bank for rural people like here.
a postal banking service in the U.S. would likely force banks to lower their fees and offer more services to compete
Hopefully so.
The best banks are online-only, like Captital One 360 or Ally. They have fantastic interest rates, no monthly fees, and are very convenient. Unfortunately those don't support international wires either.
BoA, Chase, and Wells Fargo are disasters who are always screwing over their customers. Smaller regional banks (PNC, SunTrust, etc) are mediocre, but probably your best bet for lower idiocy + international transfers.
Chances of postal banking in US = zero
Btw, they have that in Japan as well
why's there no chance of it
unrelated but HAHAHAHAHAHA: https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1105492031210688512
You are going against one of the most powerful lobby groups in the US. You have a better chance of forcing them to accept Elizabeth Warren style banking regulations
FUCK the universities
if there's a bad recession/depression around the bend, that will make radical steps like postal banking more palatable
since the banks will likely do what they did ten years ago: fuck everyone below them while begging for government handouts
I don't think they get a pass next time, but to actually create a nationalized competitor, I don't think so
I do think they get squeezed in a lot of different ways
the fact that the U.S. has had a postal banking system before buttresses the argument for recreating it, unlike the UBI which has never been tried on the federal level
North Dakota also has a state-owned bank that is stable and useful for citizens of that state