The Dodd overdraft hearing

Bloomberg’s summary contains this strange paragraph:

The Senate plan may result in fewer low-income people using banks, said Joe Gillen, chief executive officer of Pinnacle Financial Strategies, a bank-consulting firm based in Houston. That would be counter to what Congress has been trying to do in recent years, he said, forcing those people into alternatives such as payday loans.

As we’ve proved before, payday loans are the cheaper alternative.

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