Lombard Street, a Description of the Money Market
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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Lombard Street is the classic statement of how central banks began functioning to insure the private bank system against bank panics. Walter Bagehot wrote this at the time of a revolution in banking that came about after the Joint Stock Companies Act of 1862 allowed private banks to have limited liability. Banking then boomed in England, and the Bank of England went from being a private bank to a bank also serving the Crown of England, and finally into a central bank as we see them today.
The Bank of England would hold reserves for the entire private banking system…
From Max's list on Walter Bagehot’s challenge.
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