‘Gerbil banking’ preceded the Great Depression. We’re seeing it again today
The recent action by a consortium of banks to deposit money in First Republic Bank harkens back to an earlier attempt to counter bank runs: the U.S. Postal Savings system. Banking in the 19th century was notoriously unstable, with bank runs or “panics” coming all too frequently. By the turn of the…
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