Biz: Where do banks really make their ill-gotten money? Overdraft fees
- $20.5 billion the amount banks are expected to make from credit card fees such as overlimit fees in 2009, which will (fortunately) soon be regulated by the federal government
- $38.5 billion the amount banks are expected to make from overdraft fees – fees that banks drive up by charging large items first, then small items – this year. This is bull$*&@. source