Hill Blast August 14, 2024

MPC Hill Blast: Hotel Owners Know Competition Will Improve Credit Cards

Check out this article from Laura Lee Blake, President and CEO of the Asian American Hotel Owners Association whose 20,000 members own 60 percent of U.S. hotels.

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Hill Blast July 31, 2024

MPC Hill Blast: Facts Get in the Way

The giant Wall Street Banks fund a lot of groups. One of them is the Bank Policy Institute (whose Board includes the CEOs of JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citi, and Wells Fargo, among others).

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Hill Blast July 30, 2024

MPC Hill Blast: The Rest of the Story

With a nod to the late Paul Harvey, The Capitol Forum has given us the hidden background on the big banks’ misdirection on credit card rewards.

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Hill Blast July 23, 2024

MPC Hill Blast: Major IT Outages Ground Flights, Hits Banks and Businesses Worldwide

As everyone learned, and many experienced first-hand, last week a flawed update from the cybersecurity software firm Crowdstrike disrupted operations at companies of all kinds throughout much of the world.

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Hill Blast July 19, 2024

MPC Hill Blast: The Blame Game

Big Wall Street banks love to jack up fees on consumers. And they like to blame anything else they can for their decisions to do so.

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Hill Blast December 04, 2023

MPC Hill Blast: News Flash: Credit Card Companies Mistreat Consumers

Credit card companies and giant Wall Street banks keep finding more ways to get more money out of American consumers. Keep in mind, they argue that they treat consumers better because of the big dollars they take from merchants in the form of swipe fees. But swipe fees are up more than 50% just since 2020. Has that stopped the big banks from crushing consumers with higher interest rates and big fees? NO.

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