Bank Runs

  • Powell’s Keynote Speech on Ending “Too Big to Fail”

    It is reported that the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Powell, delivered an Ending “Too Big to Fail” keynote speech at the 2013 meeting of the International Bankers Association in Washington. In his first speech as a member of the Federal Reserve, he discussed how to deal with bank runs. In January 1991, there was the third largest bank failure in the history of the United States. The financial system and the overall economy were under great pressure. 45 banks were closed and 300000 accounts were affected. At that time, the problem was that either the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation of the United States protected all bank depositors without considering the deposit insurance limit, or it might face a more severe panic run. At last, the Federal Reserve decided to ignore the maximum insurance amount and protect the full amount in each account. Powell proposed to protect the full amount of each account in the collapse of the third largest…

    03/12/2023
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  • Possible Impacts of USDC’s Two Key Nodes on the Crypto Market

    It is reported that the encrypted KOL \”Shenyu\” tweet analysis said that the USDC has two key nodes. The first is that there are 3 billion USDC mortgages in the…

    03/11/2023
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