I suppose there is no point in being part of the 1% unless you can throw your weight around. Greg Palast writes in the Guardian of how Goldman took a wee bit of revenge on Occupy Wall Street via the itty bitty credit union ($30 million in assets) that OWS chose for its bank account, Peoples Bank. Peoples has “a unique Federal charter”. It focuses on low income customers, meaning families with less than $38,000 in income (to get to how far that goes in the rest of the US ex maybe San Francisco, reduce that amount by at least 30%). Goldman had donated $5,000 as a sponsor of a 25th anniversary party for the bank. So ... (full story)