Banks are twice as efficient. "Able to process a higher amount of transactions. Careful though, as taller tellers tell tall tales."
232
Scissor-resistant credit cards
Own 5 banks
70 million
Banks are twice as efficient. "For those truly valued customers."
233
Acid-proof vaults
Own 25 banks
700 million
Banks are twice as efficient. "You know what they say : better safe than sorry."
234
Chocolate coins
Own 50 banks
70 billion
Banks are twice as efficient. "This revolutionary currency is much easier to melt from and into ingots - and tastes much better, for a change."
235
Exponential interest rates
Own 100 banks
7 trillion
Banks are twice as efficient. "Can't argue with mathematics! Now fork it over."
236
Financial zen
Own 150 banks
700 trillion
Banks are twice as efficient. "The ultimate grail of economic thought; the feng shui of big money, the stock market yoga - the Heimlich maneuver of dimes and nickels."
237
Way of the wallet
Own 200 banks
700 quadrillion
Banks are twice as efficient. "This new monetary school of thought is all the rage on the banking scene; follow its precepts and you may just profit from it."
298
The stuff rationale
Own 250 banks
700 quintillion
Banks are twice as efficient. "If not now, when? If not it, what? If not things... stuff?"
311
Edible money
Own 300 banks
700 sextillion
Banks are twice as efficient. "It's really quite simple; you make all currency too delicious not to eat, solving world hunger and inflation in one fell swoop!"
432
Grand supercycle
Own 350 banks
700 septillion
Banks are twice as efficient. "We let the public think these are complicated financial terms when really we're just rewarding the bankers with snazzy bicycles for a job well done. It's only natural after you built those fancy gold swimming pools for them, where they can take a dip and catch Kondratiev waves."
484
Rules of acquisition
Own 400 banks
7 nonillion
Banks are twice as efficient. "Rule 387 : a cookie baked is a cookie kept."
510
Altruistic loop
Own 450 banks
70 decillion
Banks are twice as efficient. "You control so many branches of the global economy and legislative bodies that, through a particularly creative loophole, donating money (to yourself) grants you even more cash in tax deductions than you started with!"
666
Diminishing tax returns
Own 500 banks
700 undecillion
Banks are twice as efficient. "Wow, they're tiny! Wish you'd thought of that sooner!"
704
Cookie Points
Own 550 banks
7 tredecillion
Banks are twice as efficient. "A loyalty program wherein each purchase of your cookies comes with free Cookie Points, which can in turn be redeemed for more cookies, thus creating the self-sustaining economy you've been looking for."
747
The big shortcake
Own 600 banks
70 quattuordecillion
Banks are twice as efficient. "You're not quite sure what this entails, but it must have been quite the cake for folks to lose their homes over it."
844
Grandma Form
Purchasing 15 Banks allows for the purchasing of a Grandma upgrade and a new Grandma type.
The "Need for greed" achievement refers to a quote from Top Gun: "I've got the need...the need for speed!" It could also refer to a subsequent video game franchise Need for Speed as well as the film adaptation of the same name.
The "A loan in the dark" is a reference to the series of video games "Alone in the Dark".