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Canadian Banking System

free banking, Canadian free banking, fractional reserve banking, Austrian economics, economic history
Economic History, Economic Thought, Free Banking

Bob Murphy on Free Banking in Canada

George Selgin/February 12, 2019June 19, 2022

A few months after my April 2018 Soho debate with him concerning whether fractional reserve banking is damaging to an economy's health, Bob Murphy gave a lecture on "Rothbardians vs. 'Free Bankers' on Fractional Reserve Banking." Bob devotes a substantial chunk of that lecture to elaborating upon…

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Canadian banking system, free banking, scottish free banking, bank of canada
Banking Regulation, Free Banking, The Fed & Central Banks

Entry into Canadian Banking, 1870-1935

George Selgin/May 8, 2018June 19, 2022

As all dedicated Alt-M readers know, I am a big fan of the Canadian banking and monetary system that flourished between Canada's Confederation in 1867 and the outbreak of the First World War.  Besides thinking it was a darn good system, I also regard it as the…

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Canadian banking system, base money, free banking, economic history, monetary base
Economic History, Free Banking

Did Free Banking Stabilize Canadian NGDP?

George Selgin/September 14, 2017June 19, 2022

About a month ago, a Facebook post drew my attention to an attempt, by Casey Pender of Prague's CEVRO Institute, to test my thesis that free banking contributes to NGDP stability using statistical evidence from Canada, which had a relatively free banking system between 1867, the year of…

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Canadian Banking System, Dodd-Frank, Financial CHOICE Act, FinTech, Too Big To Fail, Mark Calabria, Calabria, Banking Unbound, Cato, banking regulation
Banking Regulation, Economic History, Financial Markets

Banking Unbound: A Day in Charlotte

Ari Blask/June 23, 2017June 19, 2022

As policymakers begin to rethink the current financial regulatory regime, it is important to reconsider the relation between banking regulation, financial stability, and economic vitality. With this in mind, we focused this year’s Cato Summit on Financial Regulation on banking and brought it to one of the…

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Canadian Banking System, clearinghouses, Glass-Steagall, Unit Banking, intragroup funding
Banking Regulation, Financial Markets, Free Banking

Intragroup Funding: Don’t Build the Wall

Julien Noizet/April 28, 2017June 19, 2022

Three years ago, I wrote about the importance of intragroup funding, liquidity, and capital flows within a banking group composed of multiple entities , as is common nowadays. In short, I suggested that, based on the evidence, intragroup funding — or “internal capital markets,” as some academics refer to…

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