[mjp]

“I was tired of paying outrageous fees to banks for a severe lack of services.

That is the way the free market is supposed to work. An increase in price of a good or service tends to lead to a decrease in demand for it.

[Uncle Ike]

” An increase in price of a good or service tends to lead to a decrease in demand for it. “

In an economy largely driven by ‘asset bubbles’ (say, us, the past 20 years) this truism gets forgotten - but, like gravity, when it reasserts itself, it usually leads to pretty disastrous results....