Talk:Fractional-reserve banking

Fractional-reserve banking is too important a fact of economic life to be without entry in citizendium. Please extend the stub.

--Janos Abel 06:01, 23 April 2007 (CDT)

Notes for editing later tonight: http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/frb.html - Rothbard on fractional reserve http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north86.html - Gary North on Mises on frb http://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reservereq.htm - federal reserve on reserve requirements http://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/0693lead.pdf - history of reserve requirements

I removed the sentence about the controversy because that's not the way the controversy usually plays out. The Lew Rockwell links above are incredibly skeptical of fractional reserve banking, and I will rebuild the controversy based on them. Anthony Argyriou 17:27, 8 May 2007 (CDT)