Money

摘要

I may be handing american express the pink slip. Its unending fees are bugging me. I recently fired Mint, a car-sharing program, for gouging me for being 40 minutes late. Mint was intransigent about it, and so was I; I drove my business to Hertz on Demand. I dumped American Airlines years ago after enduring the umpteenth cramped New York-to-Dallas flight, but then again, like you, I have fired every airline. They're hard to fire forever. Many people are soon going to decide whether to fire their banks and credit-card issuers. Bank of America and others are adding monthly fees for the privilege of using your debit card. They're also raising minimum balances for free checking and hiking other fees. The banks blame new regulations that have cut debit-card transaction fees, but in truth they've been subsidizing free checking with high fees elsewhere: for lateness, overdrawing or busting your credit limit.