Charter of Greed

Jane M. Wilson is a Toronto-based chartered financial analyst in the
investment business.

The author, an owner of successful photography studios, is one of many
small-business managers who are apoplectic at the treatment they receive
from banks. A private complaint to his bank’s CEO was not enough for
Haskell; Charter of Greed was the result. While the book’s more
complex banking stories generally lack sufficient detail for an
objective verdict, it is filled with quotes, newspaper excerpts, and
service-fee outrages. Several incongruous photographs illustrating
Haskell’s services also suggest that sweet cherubs and blushing brides
in bucolic surroundings are the prey of merciless banks.

Haskell’s language and personal views on our callous age of greed
also make this book more a diatribe than a dissertation, but the
appearance of a self-published philippic against Canada’s chartered
banks is still a significant event. Greed is a good gift for bankers’
clients.