Remember how the banks & credit card companies were talking about cash & gold being the enemy? Seen these about how their plastic money is working & being accepted?
Wednesday September 5, 9:31 am Eastern Time
Citibank ATMs crash Tuesday night after software bug
NEW YORK, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Citibank, the banking arm of No. 1 U.S. financial services firm Citigroup Inc. (NYSE:C - news), said its national network of 2,000 ATMs crashed for four hours on Tuesday night, preventing customers from withdrawing cash.
Some individual ATMs continue to have isolated glitches although the systems are up and running again, a Citibank spokesman said on Wednesday. The network broke down from around 1700 EST to 2100 EST on Tuesday because of software problems.(cont)
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Tuesday September 4, 5:15 pm Eastern Time
Wal-Mart to stop taking Interlink debit cards
(UPDATE: Recasts first paragraph, adds details, adds closing stock price)
BENTONVILLE, Ark., Sept 4 (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE:WMT - news), the world's largest retailer, said on Tuesday it will no longer accept debit cards on the Interlink network after the company more than doubled the fees it charges retailers.(cont)
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Best I remember of recent history, the hardest of hard currency types never said "there should be nothing except gold"? Just that gold was "another currency".
They call us extremists, but we are willing to "live & let live", while they would rather kill even paper money in favor of their own brand of credit??? |
