Free market or fee market? Big banks charged more for almost every fee imaginable.
Overdraft fees were 41 percent higher at big banks compared to small; 43 percent more for bounced checks, 57 percent more for stop-payment orders, and 18 percent more for ATM withdrawals.
At the urging of then Fed chairman Alan Greenspan, Congress ordered the Federal Reserve to stop publishing its annual report on bank fees. . . .
More details from Stacy Mitchell of the New Rules Project.