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Monday, December 19, 2005 - 1:19pmSanction this postReply
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Jeff & Luke,

I've been shopping around for a house (and a home loan) and when I got my car the lowest rate was BB&T. Being new to the area I went with them based only on the lowest rate. The last time I went in for a payment I noticed the philosophy on a sign prominetly displayed in the branch and I was pleasantly surprised. I immediately sat down and started talking to the branch manager about house loans. While I'm not naive enough to think everyone in the company are objectivists, I am much encouraged to examine their products by their corporate philosophy.

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Monday, December 19, 2005 - 2:38pmSanction this postReply
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And we aren't talking about a small bank here, strange that I didn't take notice before.  BB&T is a pretty sizeable ($23 Billion Market Cap) regional bank paying a nice dividend.  I like the company philosophy so much that I might just become a stock holder.  My previous employer JPMorgan Chase was probably the most hardcore politically correct, multiculturalist, touchy feely company on the planet.  I hope that BB&T performs well so that other big companies take notice.

 - Jason


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Monday, December 19, 2005 - 7:25pmSanction this postReply
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Jason,
You are in one backwards-bizarre way, lucky. PC, multi-culturalist, touchy-feely, would be a huge step up ethically compared to most companies I worked for. As much as I despise the quasi-libs, they at least have some respect for some kind of ethical principles, wrong as they may be. Most companies I've worked for operated (to oversimplify somewhat) on two rough guidelines: (1) Do anything to anyone to get what you want, (2) Pretend that everyone is being nice and considerate while doing it.


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Tuesday, March 13, 2012 - 7:20pmSanction this postReply
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Wow great article Luke, this reminds me of the movie " The Last Samurai" When Ken Watanabi was saying that he is no longer necessary to which Tom Cruise replied " necessary?.. What could be more necessary". Now more than ever objectivism needs to be "out there" and understandable to the average guy.

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