THE BIG BANKS EXPLAINED: FROM ANDY WARHOL TO BILL MAHER

A meeting about financing our new building. You can realy see how these big banks are spending all the money. About thirty executives were seating with us-Fred and Vincent met me there-and for each one there was a black waiter. And the banks buys all this cheap art like it's from a drugstore or something , and they put a plaque in. I don't know maybe this will be the art to collect , who knows, but God...And they put stairways going from one floor to the next as if you're getting married. Those kind of stairways.

The Andy Warhol Diaries
Feb 2 1983


They took our money... but kept on with all the greedy, abusive, ruthless, and cold-blooded practices that have earned them untold billions of dollars a year -- year after year after year. Things like charging you outrageous fees for anything and everything, jacking up your credit card interest rate to 30 percent for being late on one payment (it's a good thing sodomy is legal!), and refusing to renegotiate your mortgage after the housing bubble they helped create burst.These big banks, deemed "Too Big To Fail" by our Wall Street-friendly leaders in Washington, are convinced that they can get away with anything -- because they always have.

Bill Maher
Jan 13 2009