Wichita
Financial Services
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Wichita's first lender was James R. Mead, when he loaned money for supplies to
1,500 Wichita Indians in the winter of 1863-64. Later, around 1870, W.C.
Woodman's general store became Wichita's first loan service eventually growing
into one of Wichita's first banks. The Arkansas Valley Bank made Woodman
one of Wichita's richest men in the "boom" years of the 1880s. A lot of money,
fueled by the cattle drives and land speculation, was actively changing hands
in the early days of Wichita.
Then during the economic downturn of the
1890s, numerous ill-fated banking ventures came and went. The earliest
predecessor of today's Intrust
Bank, the Farmer's and Merchant's Bank, however, was able to weather
the downturns with its strong roots and a conservative fiscal policy. During
the Depression-era bank failures, no Wichita banks were forced to close,
although there were some close calls.
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Wichita
Area Banking
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control
the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the
banks...will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up
homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." - President, Thomas
Jefferson
Thanks to years of greed, selfishness
and namby-pamby lawmaking, banks in America have become more arrogant in their
flagrant criminal treatment of their customers. Intrust Bank, Capital One Bank,
and others, should learn the lesson of All-Tech Investment Group Inc., the
electronic day trading firm in Atlanta where in 1999, their customer, Mark O.
Barton committed suicide after allegedly killing nine people. The day trading
firm was charged with deceptive advertising and making unauthorized transfers
of customers' funds.
The U.S. Postal Service, which has seen so many
outbursts of excessive stress, known as "going postal," has experienced
thirty-five people being killed in 11 post office shootings since 1983. So far,
bank employees have been fortunate that most of the pent-up anger has been
mostly limited to post office's or directed at children on school campuses.
However, I suspect bank employees would consider themselves lucky they have not
opened an account for a customer like Jennifer San Marco, Christopher Green, or
Cho Seung-Hui.
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Despite Intrust Bank's best
efforts to deny this man his money, he was forced to take extreme measures
making a withdrawal at
Intrust Bank, (Inside Dillons Super Store), 2244 N. Rock
Road.
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This poor guy discovered the
new policy at the
Intrust Bank branch at Harry and Webb Rd. for exchanging
damaged Federal Reserve Notes is to immediately cancel your account after being
insulted by the branch manager.
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Consumer
Protection
Coughing up $4 fees for ATM
transactions. Iron-clad cell phone contracts you can’t get out of with a
crowbar. Paying big bucks for insurance you don’t need on a rental car or
forking over $20 a day for supposedly “free” wireless internet. Every
day we use banks, cell phones, and credit cards. Every day we book hotels and
airline tickets. And every day we get ripped off. How? Here are just a few
examples of how big business can get you:
- You didn’t fill up the rental
car with gas? Gotcha! Gas costs $7 a gallon here.
- Your bank balance fell to $999.99
for one day? Gotcha! That’ll be $12.
- You miss one payment on that
18-month same-as-cash loan? Gotcha! That’ll be $512 extra.
- You’re one day late on that
electric bill? Gotcha! All your credit cards now have a 29.99% interest
rate.
In Gotcha Capitalism, MSNBC.com’s
“Red Tape
Chronicles” columnist Bob Sullivan exposes the ways we’re all
cheated by big business, and teaches us how to get our money back–proven
strategies that can help you save more than $1,000 a year.
Listen to Interview on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry
Gross
Listen
to Interview on Marketplace
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Other
Financial Services
Banks used to have the market for
personal loans all to themselves and were the only business entities that could
offer personal loans. Because of this, they were able to charge you
extortionate rates, confident in the knowledge that the borrower had no other
choice.
Well, it’s a little different now. The market is open,
which means that banks are no longer the only ones from whom you can get your
personal loan. There are loads of places where you can apply for quick personal
loans. And because of the increase in supply of consumer credit, the rates have
become increasingly competitive.
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Tax
Services
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its absolute lowest is one of the foundation principles of sound financial
policy. With professional advice on the proper planning, timing and
documentation of home-based business activities,
most people can dramatically reduce the
amount of taxes they owe.
Tax Reduction
Resources
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