The Failure of Central Banking: Politics

The Failure of Central Banking: Politics
The seal of the Federal Reserve on a U.S. banknote. Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images
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The view was generally held that centralization of banking would inevitably result in one of two alternatives: either complete government control, which meant politics in banking, or control by ‘Wall Street,’ which meant banking in politics.
Tuomas Malinen
Tuomas Malinen
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Tuomas Malinen is CEO and chief economist at GnS Economics, a Helsinki-based macroeconomic consultancy, and an associate professor of economics. He studied economic growth and economic crises for 10 years. In his newsletter (MTMalinen.Substack.com), Malinen deals with forecasting and how to prepare for the recession and approaching crisis.
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