We would be well-served to have a way to opt out of the fraud of fractional reserve banking, gckaloudis writes. Opinion for The Node newsletter
The recent buyout of First Republic, the second-largest bank failure in the U.S. ever, has raised serious questions about solvency and liquidity across the global banking system. Banks are supposed to be stodgy operations: Customers deposit money into a bank account for safekeeping and withdraw it whenever they want to use it. And by and large that system works.
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“Financial systems help us overcome a collective action problem. In a world of investment projects whose costs and risks are perfectly transparent, most individuals would be frightened ... A banking system is a superposition of fraud and genius that interposes itself between investors and entrepreneurs.
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