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Address disparities in interest rates in the United States banking industry

Created by S.M. on June 11, 2014

Interest rates for savings and investments in the United States financial system are disparate at a level that constitutes "usury" in every historical sense of the word. How can "banks" on the one hand pay a mere 00.01% or less on individual savings and simultaneously charge upwards of 20% interest on credit card balances. These disparate rates hurt primarily poor and middle class individuals who in today's economy often have to carry their day-to-day and month-to-month expenses on credit cards paying an obscene amount of interest charges. At the same time, if they were even able to hypothetically - hypothetically because in reality it's not an option - put some money into savings they would see essentially zero in the way of benefits. This is unconscionable at best, criminal at worst.

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