Overdrafts. The bane of our bank accounts. This is just one of the financial expenses imposed on hard-working consumers; not to mention the costs of foreign Automated Teller Machines (ATM) fees when there’s not a branch in sight when you need one. It is of course clear that banks are a business. They provide a service and should be paid for it. But there’s compensation, and then there’s compensation. In May of 2015, CNN Money reported that America’s three biggest banks: JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo earned over $1.1 billion on overdraft fees. And if they stay on pace and you extrapolate those numbers, from this fee stream alone,… Read More