All Posts Tagged With: "Regulation Q"

Bank Deregulation: Friend or Foe?

Banking has changed a lot during my lifetime—for the better. The changes are partly due to technology (ATMs, online access), but also to deregulation that subjected banks to a lot more competition. What were the major deregulatory moves and how might they have contributed to the recent crisis? Before addressing those questions, a little personal [...]

22Oct2010 | Warren C. Gibson | 5 comments | Continued

Monetary-Policy Disasters of the Twentieth Century

Kirby R. Cundiff is an associate professor of finance at Northeastern State University in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and an adjunct associate professor of finance at the University of Maryland University College. The Federal Reserve System was created in 1913 and soon did what central banks almost always do: it started printing lots of money. During World [...]

1Jan2007 | Kirby R. Cundiff | 5 comments | Continued

The Greenspan Fed in Perspective

Some readers of the Wall Street Journal might have been led to believe that Alan Greenspan had somehow followed Milton Friedman’s monetary rule. We now see, though, that there was no well-grounded rule; there was no standard.

1Jun2006 | Roger W. Garrison | 1 comment | Continued

Deposit Insurance versus Branch Banking: The S&L Debacle

Larry Schweikart teaches history at the University of Dayton. Those of us old enough to have parents or grandparents who lived through the Great Depression have probably heard the remark that “Franklin Roosevelt saved the banking system with deposit insurance.” The purported value of federal deposit insurance for keeping banks solvent is assumed, and virtually [...]

1Jul2001 | Larry Schweikart | 1 comment | Continued
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