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Why full-reserve banking isn't a solution to bank failures

Ensuring safety for depositors at the expense of bank lending comes with high economic costs.

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Frances Coppola
May 29, 2023
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A swathe of bank failures in the US, and the forced merger of two Swiss banking giants, has drawn advocates of full-reserve banking and its close relative, “narrow" banking, out from hibernation. Last seen in the aftermath of the financial crisis, these strange creat…

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