Questions tagged [banking]

for questions about claims based on banking and banks.

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Does the Rothschild family own most central banks?

Someone on my Facebook feed posted a video that stated that the Rothschild family owns all the central banks in the world except in North Korea, Iran, and Cuba. It also claims that in the year 2000 there were four more countries on that list:…
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Are businesses required to cut up credit cards?

There are several movies and tv shows in which a character attempts to use a credit card, only to find that it's been cancelled. This usually results in the card being cut up. In the trailer for the movie Identity Thief, they even went so far as…
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Is there a $15 trillion fraud involving Yohannes Riyadi and the HSBC?

According to Lord James of Blackheath speech in the UK House of Lords there's evidence that a $15 trillon conspiracy/fraud is going on. In particular he says: "Today, I have this quite frightening piece of paper [...] It is from the general…
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Did radically fewer new banks open after Dodd-Frank was enacted?

According to the WallStreet journal (non-paywalled quote on OverLawyered): Based in a rural village in the heart of Amish country, Bank of Bird-in-Hand is the only new bank to open in the U.S. since 2010, when the Dodd-Frank law was passed and…
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