Mark W. Benjamin at Minnesota Public Radio:
Let’s face it. The Big Banks have become rude, selfish and arrogant, like the bad boys in relationship advice columns. We’ve read about the woman who makes pathetic excuses for her no-good, abusive boyfriend. He takes her money, gambles it away at the track, comes home drunk and slaps her. Later, he apologizes, says things will get better and he will change. She believes him, gives him more money and the cycle repeats itself.
It’s time to wash these bad boy Big Banks out of our hair and take up with a nice boy Little Bank from down the street. You know the one? He’s plain, pimply and soft-spoken. But he respects you and will treat you right.
Move Your Money is a way to assert independence and autonomy in a world that seems all too shaped by powerful forces beyond our control. And while J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon doesn’t appear to be shaking in his boots yet at the threat to his dominion, for a smaller, local bank, every new account makes a real difference. That’s more than enough reason to make a change.
Laurent Belsie at the Christian Science Monitor:
Take your money out. That’s right. Take your checking and savings account out of that big money-center financial institution and move it to a community bank or credit union.
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