Remember when opening a bank account you got TV sets etc as gifts. Oh and 9% interest

Discussion in 'Chit Chat' started by KINGOFSHORTS, Jun 25, 2025.

  1. Back in the days you open an account and you got 9% interest on your cash along with a choice of appliances including nice RCA or Zenith TV sets etc.
     
  2. The 30Y was yielding 11.5% at the time.
     
  3. nitrene

    nitrene

    I remember watching Bowling For Columbine (2002) and the narrator (Michael Moore) got free a rifle in some Colorado bank for getting a CD account.

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  4. newwurldmn

    newwurldmn

    I remember that.

    The bank wants to its clients protect themselves from bear attacks.
     
  5. Michael Moore was one of the few who made eye-opening documentaries at that time.
    It made the rest of the world realize how sick the American society is.
     
  6. nitrene

    nitrene

    The strangest thing about Bowling for Columbine is it is really an anti-gun & anti-NRA documentary. It isn't really about Columbine at all. Columbine was just a means to an end.

    The best documentary about the Columbine incident is the Discovery Channel's Zero Hour Massacre At Columbine High. It is more of a re-enactment but it is very chilling. It does a good job of describing the back story of Harris & Kliebold. They were both pretty anti-social.