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During the 20th century, developments in telecommunications and computing caused major changes to banks' operations and let banks dramatically increase in size and geographic spread. The 2007–2008 financial crisis led to many bank failures, including some of the world's largest banks, and provoked much debate about bank regulation.
World leaders at the 2010 G-20 summit in Seoul, South Korea, endorsed the Basel III standards for banking regulation. Former World Bank Chief Economist and former chairman of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers Joseph Stiglitz referred in the late 1990s to a growing consensus that something is wrong with a system having the capacity to impose ...
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World is a 2008 book by then-Harvard professor Niall Ferguson, [1] and an adapted television documentary for Channel 4 (UK) and PBS (US), [2] which in 2009 won an International Emmy Award. It examines the long history of money, credit, and banking.
The price of gold, as denominated in US dollars, was stable until the collapse of the Bretton Woods system in the mid-1970s. The Bretton Woods system of monetary management established the rules for commercial relations among 44 countries, including the United States, Canada, Western European countries, and Australia [1] after the 1944 Bretton Woods Agreement.
A Monetary History of the United States, 1867–1960 is a book written in 1963 by future Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz.It uses historical time series and economic analysis to argue the then-novel proposition that changes in the money supply profoundly influenced the United States economy, especially the behavior of economic fluctuations.
These banks could issue bank notes against specie (gold and silver coins) and the states regulated the reserve requirements, interest rates for loans and deposits, the necessary capital ratio etc. Free banking spread rapidly to other states, and from 1840 to 1863 all banking business was done by state-chartered institutions.
The swinging 1960s could help to unpack a key puzzle of our current era: America's funky economic mood. ... While many cheered on the social changes happening in both eras, it also led to fretful ...
Agreements were signed that, after legislative ratification by member governments, established the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD, later part of the World Bank group) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). This led to what was called the Bretton Woods system for international commercial and financial relations.