re: #122 ggt

NO, I didn’t.

Well, I read about Glass-Steagall and it’s slow, painful destruction. Did you know the original legislation outlawed interest bearing checking accounts?

No, I did not. But Glass-Steagall is full of surprises anyhow. I knew this already but then forgot about it until I recently rediscovered it: littlegreenfootballs.com and littlegreenfootballs.com

The Shadow Banking Scholarly paper is so scholarly, it may take a re-read of certain parts to totally digest it.

Can you provide author and title (and maybe publication date and place)? What’s the main gist?

That’s all I can remember now.

The data base you mentioned also seemed interesting.