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Welcome to the mobidawg blog, a journal of commentary about the current economy. If you are struggling to understand how the world economy could have gotten so out of control and are thinking of ways to improve your personal economy, then join our discussions and impart your wisdom and together we will all prosper -- once again.

If you have an apple and I have an apple, and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea, and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
- George Bernard Shaw

Saturday, March 9, 2013

Go Green -- For Whose Sake?

I have a pet peeve with the Financial Services community and 'going green', by stopping my mailed accounts.

Carrot or stick
Finite or infinite access
Realtime or delayed

Who is really getting the benefit of the saving?

It is *my* info ... its already in *their* archives. Archives can be 100% dynamic, online and accessible 7x24. Computing, storage and bandwidth should not be an issue for my 60+ years of data, reports, etc. There are no excuses in this day-and-age. If Google can give me virtually unlimited email, cloud-stored documents, video, photos, maps, all for free, then Financial Services like Bank of America, CitiBank, Chase, Charles Schwabb, American Express, Franklin Funds, etc., etc., etc. should be able to provide secure, always available, unlimiited access to their electronic warehouse of my information.

Furthermore, credit scores should be mandated to be free and real-time reported, real-time disputed, and real-time corrected. No excuses.




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