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Account to cover it theyre going to pay for it but charge you $35 generally. >> thats one thing if you write a check that was maybe or your rent and that was a couple thousand dallas or whatever it may be, but if you just went to starbucks and you got a $5 cup of coffee, thats going to end up costing you 40 bucks. >> 40 bucks. a high-cost latte. a lot of people dont think about that. burger, $40 for a ham bugger because maybe you didnt monitor the account well. >> who would you represent this fo...

Goldman sachs. they used to be partnerships now they became publicly traded. >> when you were a partner at a wall street firm. you were a partner. that meant joint and several liability. liability if one of your partners screws up badly and loses millions when you are sued they go after the partners assets that includes not just stocks and bonds and bank accounts, but their houses and their cars and their boats and their rolexes. there is no shield. other than telling your wife that you know you...

Goldman sachs. they used to be partnerships now they became publicly traded. >> when you were a partner at a wall street firm. you were a partner. that meant joint and several liability. liability if one of your partners screws up badly and loses millions when you are sued they go after the partners assets that includes not just stocks and bonds and bank accounts, but their houses and their cars and their boats and their rolexes. there is no shield. other than telling your wife that you know you...

12th. >> yeah, yeah. so they might lose 2 million people off of -- they might lose their unemployment was about here. they fell one vote short. republicans have decided to be extremely unify on this. theyre happy to pass the extensions of the unemployment was about or offset it with stimulus cuts. >> what senator mcconnell, the republican leader, said the only reason that the unemployment extension has not passed is because of our friends on the other side simply refuse to pass a bill that does ...

Banked i have to pay more for bank services and i want to know if theres a way around it. >> its continue to vote and think about november because anytime you add regulations and any time you try to needle any industry with extra taxes, that industry by its very nature in a capitalistic economy passes them on to consumers in the form of higher fees. free checking 0 or something like that. i sell books,fy sell books for a certain number of dollars and make a profit, you add to my cost by adding t...

Yet we live in a country where were checking our e-mail one, two, ten times a day. >> an hour? >> i think we should be checking our account balances, as well. >> wow. >> so one of the things thats new is that weve been able to set up overdraft protection, if you have money in savings, the bank will transfer money for us to the checking account, theyre now starting to charge us for that. so we have to take responsibility, go online, and make those changes ourselves. transfer the money. what you w...

To avoid these fees. if youre paying fees, $5, $15, $35 a month, youre losing money, folks. youre paying someone to hold your money for you and you dont want to be in this economy in that kind of situation. so i say run screaming from the fees. be very careful, free checking might be ending and a lot of the banks that youve been doing business with. >> they have to notify you? >> oh, yeah, they have to notify you. but heres the thing. it costs -- estimates vary but it costs from $200 to $300 a d...

Into default. a lawyer contacted me to collect. i agreed to pay 80% of the debt. hes insisting on a check over the phone. but after investigating his company, i am hesitant to deal with him at all. how should i settle this? >> you are wise to be worried. credit card collectors, you can tell theyre lying if their mouth is moving even if they say theyre an attorney. yeah, bad idea. so what you got to have is this offer in writing or its no good. later it will come back to bite you and no electroni...

32-year-old never campaigned and raised little to no money. he joins us live. what do you suspect? >> hello, contessa. how are you? >> im good. what do you suspect happened here? >> well, weve had experts looking at this, experts in computer science, experts in statistics and expers in political science and theyre indicating to us they do not believe its possible for this outcome to occur. >> i know that the democratic party in south carolina confirmed that greene even tried to pay his campaign ...

They dont want it linked to the stimulus funding. they want it a separate allocation. >> i understand why people are nervous and anxious when they talk about terrorism. but as the administration pointed out, they have given 24% more towards transit and port security. but it doesnt matter where the check is coming -- is it coming from the checking account or savings account? its a bigger check they are receiving in new york city. they are not yet spending. there is money out there right now that ...