Do Borrowers Need Banks?

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Do Borrowers Need Banks?

By The AMA Team on Tuesday, September 30th, 2014 | Comments Off

Banks are an essential part of the financial landscape – or at least, they’d like you to think so. But are they? New banking alternatives may be making the traditional bank loan a thing of the past. The traditional banking model has been around for centuries, supersized to today’s massive institutions like Bank of America, […]

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Life After Lawsuits: Megabanks Try to Regroup

By The AMA Team on Tuesday, January 14th, 2014 | 1 Comment

After racking up over $40 billion in legal fees fighting government sponsored lawsuits over the past few years, Bank of America wants you to know it’s changed its ways. Faced with allegations of mistreating both its customers and employees after th death of an overworked intern at one of its London branches, the bank – […]

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Do Changing Demographics Drive Home Sales?

By The AMA Team on Wednesday, April 17th, 2013 | Comments Off

In years past, homeownership was the bedrock of American stability and a clear marker of success – and maintaining home still represents those values. “Owning a home is the keystone of wealth, both financial affluence and emotional security,” says financial guru Suze Orman. But as America ages, suffers financial instability and becomes more diverse, the […]

AMA 35 – Rich Man Poor Man with Bill Whittle

By Jason on Monday, June 25th, 2012 | Comments Off

Jason Hartman talks with Bill Whittle, host of Afterburner, regarding poverty levels in the United States and the strategies that undermine democracy and free markets. Bill’s opinion is that America has the richest poor people in the world, versus countries like Africa, where millions of people live in dire poverty, with starvation and lack of […]

AMA 34 – The National Inflation Association

By Jason on Sunday, March 11th, 2012 | Comments Off

A look at Jason’s Ultimate Investing Equation followed by Daniel and Gerard Adams for The National Inflation Association (NIA) recently featured on Inside Edition and ABC World News Tonight with Charlie Gibson, The Wall Street Journal, MSNBC, ABC’s Nightline, KTLA News and CNBC. After being ignored by family and friends about the coming stock market […]

AMA 33 – Mark Kohler – Exiting A Bad Property

By Jason on Sunday, February 5th, 2012 | Comments Off

Jason explores some ways to get out of a bad property then he interviews author/attorney Mark Kohler about his book “Lawyers Are Liars: The Truth About Protecting Our Assets.” Mark is an attorney, CPA and entrepreneur who has owned numerous businesses since high school, through college and even as a professional. Mark’s principal career has […]

AMA 32 Diane Kennedy, CPA: How To Save On Life’s Largest Expense

By Jason on Tuesday, December 20th, 2011 | 3 Comments

Most of us spend lots of time shopping around for the best deal on the things we buy while spending more money on taxes than anything else. Why not “shop around” to save money on life’s single largest expense? Join Jason as he talks with famed CPA, Diane Kennedy, about the tax strategies of wealthy […]

AMA 31 – John Stapleford: Ethics & Public Policy – Part 2

By Jason on Sunday, November 20th, 2011 | Comments Off

No, the above title is not a typo. According this week’s guest John Stapleford, it is possible for ethics and public policy to have a direct correlation. Stapleford is not only a senior economist for Moody’s Economy.com, professor emeritus of economic development at Eastern University and former director of the University of Delaware’s Bureau of […]

AMA 30 – The Five Love Languages with Dr. Gary Chapman

By Jason on Monday, October 10th, 2011 | Comments Off

Whether it’s your spouse, significant other, family, friends, or even business associates, each individual speaks his or her own love language. “The Five Love Languages” are: Words of Affirmation, Quality Time, Receiving Gifts, Acts of Service, and Physical Touch. Understanding which of these languages makes that special someone feel loved can be essential to the […]

AMA 29 – John Stapleford: Ethics & Public Policy – Part 1

By Jason on Thursday, June 9th, 2011 | 1 Comment

No, the above title is not a typo. According this week’s guest, John Stapleford, it is possible for ethics and public policy to have a direct correlation. Stapleford is not only a senior economist for Moody’s Economy.com, professor emeritus of economic development at Eastern University and former director of the University of Delaware’s Bureau of […]

AMA 28 – Les Leopold: The Looting of America

By Jason on Monday, April 25th, 2011 | Comments Off

How could the best and brightest in finance crash the global economy and then get us to bail them out as well? Hmm…This is a great question answered by Les Leopold in this interview. Les Leopold co-founded and currently directs two nonprofit organizations, the Labor Institute and the Public Health Institute, and is the author […]

AMA 27 – Thomas Sowell: The Housing Boom and Bust

By Jason on Wednesday, March 16th, 2011 | Comments Off

Jason Hartman talks with Thomas Sowell from the Hoover Institution about the cycles of boom and bust in the US housing market. Narrator: Welcome to the American Monetary Association’s podcast. Where we explore how monetary policy impacts the real lives of real people, and the action steps necessary to preserve wealth and enhance one’s lifestyle. […]

AMA 26 – Howard J. Ruff: Prosper During The Coming Bad Years

By Jason on Thursday, February 10th, 2011 | 1 Comment

How will you stay on top of your finances with the coming economic uncertainty? Your best bet is to continue listening to The American Monetary Association Show as your host, Jason Hartman, discusses cutting edge financial topics with experts in the field. For example, this episode’s very special controversial guest is Mr. Howard J. Ruff, […]

AMA 25 – James West: America’s Crime of the Century

By Jason on Monday, January 31st, 2011 | 1 Comment

Throughout the world, businesses are failing, families are losing their homes, their livelihoods and their futures. Is the financial system and its so-called leaders to blame? James West and his film, Crime of the Century, seek to illuminate the players, methods, history and present configuration of financial disaster that prevents the average citizen from investing […]

AMA 24 – Elliott Wave Theory: Predicting The Future

By Jason on Monday, January 10th, 2011 | Comments Off

Jason interviews Robert R. Prechter, Jr., CMT, President of Elliott Wave International (EWI), the world’s largest market forecasting firm. EWI’s 20-plus analysts provide around-the-clock forecasts of every major market in the world via the internet and proprietary web systems like Reuters and Bloomberg. Mr. Prechter began his professional career in 1975 as a Technical Market […]

AMA 23 – Harry Dent’s Outlook on Demographics, Debt, and Inflation

By Jason on Friday, January 7th, 2011 | Comments Off

Narrator: Welcome to the American Monetary Associations Podcast where we explore how monetary policy impacts the real lives of real people and the action steps necessary to preserve wealth and enhance one’s lifestyle. Jason Hartman: Welcome to the podcast for the American Monetary Associations Podcast. This is your host, Jason Hartman, and this is a […]

AMA 22 – Marc Chandler: Making Sense of the Dollar

By Jason on Wednesday, November 24th, 2010 | Comments Off

Has the dollar really lost its supreme place in the world? Listen in as host, Jason Hartman, discusses this subject with long time foreign exchange expert, Marc Chandler. In this episode, Chandler explains why so many are wrongly defining current conditions of both the dollar and the U.S. economy. Chandler joins us from Brown Brothers […]

AMA 21 – The Creature from Jekyll Island with G. Edward Griffin

By Jason on Tuesday, November 16th, 2010 | Comments Off

American Monetary Association is pleased to interview the gracious and scholarly G. Edward Griffin author of the masterwork The Creature from Jekyll Island an American film producer, author, and political lecturer. Starting as a child actor, Griffin became a radio station manager before age 20. After writing for the 1968 Wallace campaign, he began a […]

The Dirty Little History of Banking (Part I)

By derek on Monday, November 15th, 2010 | Comments Off

Banks haven't always been with us but we can trace the beginning of the idea of loaning money and charging interest to the period of the Babylonian captivity of Judah, which kicked off some time around 600 B.C. Two influential families by the name of Egibi and Iranu, who were part of the the first […]

Posts Tagged ‘history of banking’