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"I thought it would have been a social tragedy if one minority bank in Massachusetts, that has been working so hard and had been overextended into housing, was to be wiped out by a federal action."

~ Representative Barney Frank (D-Mass.), explaining why he wrote into the TARP bill a provision for a $12 million infusion of taxpayers' money for this small Boston bank that had spent money on a "corporate" Porsche for executives as well as a beach house in California for senior officers.

"Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies."

Thomas Jefferson, founding father and third president of the United States. Never more true than today!

Don't let your bank take advantage of you. Here are 5 Secrets Your Bank Does Not Want You to Know.

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