InILLUMINATIONbyEllen Clardy, PhDWhat Can the Panic of 1837 Teach Us?A Discussion of W.E. Weber’s Early State Banks in the United StatesAug 2, 2024Aug 2, 2024
InILLUMINATIONbyEllen Clardy, PhDThe Free Banking ExperiencePart 1 of a Discussion of Arthur Rolnick’s and Warren Weber’s “Inherent Instability in Banking”Aug 9, 2024Aug 9, 2024
InILLUMINATIONbyEllen Clardy, PhDFree Banking: Inherent Stability or Instability?Part 2 of a Discussion of Arthur Rolnick’s and Warren Weber’s “Inherent Instability in Banking: The Free Banking Experience”Aug 16, 20243Aug 16, 20243
InILLUMINATIONbyEllen Clardy, PhDWhy Free Banking Was Good for DepositorsA Discussion of Hasan and Dwyer’s article “Bank Runs in the Free Banking Period”Aug 23, 2024Aug 23, 2024
InILLUMINATIONbyEllen Clardy, PhDHow the Market Solved the Problem of Far Away Bank NotesA Discussion of Bodenhorn’s article, “The Extent of the Market for Early American Bank Notes”Sep 4, 2024Sep 4, 2024
InILLUMINATIONbyEllen Clardy, PhDWhat Can Early American Credit Markets Teach Us?A Discussion of T.-C. Wang’s Banks, Credit Markets, and Early American DevelopmentJul 27, 20241Jul 27, 20241
InILLUMINATIONbyEllen Clardy, PhDWhat Can Early American Banking Teach Us?A Discussion of Naomi Lamoreaux’s article “Banks, Kinship, and Economic Development: The New England Case”Jul 19, 2024Jul 19, 2024
InILLUMINATIONbyEllen Clardy, PhDBanking Regulation: Necessary Evil or a Deceptive Promise of Protection?Looking for the sense between Dowd and DowJul 14, 20241Jul 14, 20241
InCurated NewslettersbyEllen Clardy, PhDThe Case for Bank Regulation: Systemic Fragility Thwarts the Market’s Ability to Safeguard BanksA Discussion of Sheila Dow’s “Why the Banking System Should Be Regulated”Jun 28, 2024Jun 28, 2024
InCurated NewslettersbyEllen Clardy, PhDThe Case for Free Banking: The Market Penalizes Stockholders, Not DepositorsA Discussion of Kevin Dowd’s “The Case for Financial Laissez-Faire”Jun 21, 20248Jun 21, 20248
InILLUMINATIONbyEllen Clardy, PhDCorruption, Lobbying, and Propaganda: How War and Politics Centralized American BankingA Discussion of Patrick Newman’s “The Origins of the National Banking System”Jun 14, 20241Jun 14, 20241
InILLUMINATIONbyEllen Clardy, PhDFree Banking: Can We Prosper without a Central Bank?A Discussion of Lawrence White’s 2014 Working Paper, “Free Banking in History and Theory”Jun 8, 20241Jun 8, 20241
InILLUMINATIONbyEllen Clardy, PhDAre We in Debt Because of the Federal Reserve?The Toxic, Codependent Relationship of Our Government and the Federal ReserveJun 1, 20243Jun 1, 20243