{"id":45479,"date":"2014-09-25T15:01:39","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T21:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/25\/who-to-root-against-who-to-root-against.html"},"modified":"2014-09-29T10:45:18","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T16:45:18","slug":"who-to-root-against-who-to-root-against","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/25\/who-to-root-against-who-to-root-against.html","title":{"rendered":"Who to root against, who to root against?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Big Banks vs Walmart. Hard to decide which one I&#39;d rather see go down in flames on this topic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/gu.com\/p\/4xp6y'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/u7VA7iJ2fJ7lPjg9L4-gI6qb5ItQZQhqlduIIY-HAeOuVq6PCjJPyF4zzB413FP1m620Uqxz4rZCcKQ9UbLEJPDmGBRZCYIBsP0fbOxa_WaNpYRa0TOnQSNdKigF2Y6eJSvsnKHIk1F6jJ6be-vaYbEQn7UPIx24bd96fLsCaH_xVH3RGhJ5XgCtrFEip0KJ1p3Uvg=w506-h303-p' border='0' \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/gu.com\/p\/4xp6y'>Walmart checking accounts annoy banks who feel a threat to high fees<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nWalmart wants to get low-income people into its stores by offering checking accounts. It&rsquo;s made an enemy of banks, who want the retail giant off their turf Credit unions prosper as banks turn their backs on more Americans\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/DmdfmZk1JgS'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big Banks vs Walmart. Hard to decide which one I&#39;d rather see go down in flames on this topic. Walmart checking accounts annoy banks who feel a threat to high fees Walmart wants to get low-income people into its stores by offering checking accounts. It&rsquo;s made an enemy of banks, who want the retail giant &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/25\/who-to-root-against-who-to-root-against.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Who to root against, who to root against?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38233,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/11\/restoring-sanity-to-the-banking-industry-inconceivable.html","url_meta":{"origin":45479,"position":0},"title":"Restoring sanity to the banking industry? 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