Compare the products offered by your bank and a few competitors and then negotiate the best deal. One of your most important shopping aids for a loan...

When you urgently need cash, check out options for emergency cash from banks. Many banks offer reasonably priced, small loans that enable you to write...

Keep banking costs down. With planning, you can sidestep some of the more costly fees and penalties. Examples:
1. With credit cards, try to pay...

Don't be afraid to complain. Your bank's managers probably would prefer you bring a problem to their attention and be given the chance to fix it...

Comparison shop for financial services. Just as you would do for any major purchase, look at what is being offered by your bank and a few competitors,...

The banking business is no favorite of ours. When assets are twenty times equity -- a common ratio in this industry -- mistakes that involve only a...

Ask your bank about linking your checking account to your emergency savings account. With this arrangement, an overdrawn checking account can be...

Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

A banker need not be popular. Indeed, a good banker in a healthy capitalist society should probably be much disliked.

We foreign bankers are for the free market system when we are out to make a buck and believe in the state when we're about to lose a buck. (Anonymous...