All tagged Caitlin Long

Can Fractionalized Banking Survive 21st Century Technology?

What she knows is as the world has gone from paper to digits “bank runs clearly are speeding up. And the impact of that is it's revealing that the traditional banking system-- it's always been fundamentally unstable. But it's even more unstable than folks had realized. And banks in general, as a result of the fact that the liabilities can be withdrawn a lot faster, are going to need to hold more cash.”