Banks Want To Be Best Buds - Really?
Originally Published in The Lowell Ledger August 30, 2023 Friends Don’t Charge Friends Fees, Do They? WARNING: the following column represents my best imitation of a combination of two crotchety old guys: Andy Rooney and Lewis Black. (Young people, ask an older person about the Andy Rooney segments on “60 Minutes” back in the day when we only had three TV networks from which to choose.) Andy and Lewis represent two very different styles, methodology, and personal affects, but they do have one thing in common in that they like to examine things that really honk them off. Since we are Best Friends, can we skip the fees please? Today, I want us to examine a subject near and dear to everyone’s heart: Bank Fees. Did your blood pressure take a bit of a jump just reading those two words in that order? Cool, then we can proceed. Note: from here on all banks will be lumped together as “they” or “them.” This is my column and I get to choose the brush size I use, okay? Also, “they” are not cred