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description: a sudden withdrawal of deposits from a bank due to fears of insolvency

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Cryptoeconomics: Fundamental Principles of Bitcoin

by Eric Voskuil, James Chiang and Amir Taaki  · 28 Feb 2020  · 365pp  · 56,751 words

insufficient reserve, either because of an unexpected level of withdrawal, or because of investment losses, the MMA fails. Failure of a MMA manifests as a bank run [539] , where some people are repaid and others not. Insufficient NAV of a MMF manifests as a uniform drop in unit price. The advantage of

Bank as opposed to a competitor (or Borrower hoard). When Bank has insufficient reserve to satisfy withdrawals, either due to loans in default or a bank run [886] , it has only two options, default or borrow. To prevent the former, central banking [887] exists to provide the latter. This is the meaning

/wiki/Metallism [878] Chapter: Regression Fallacy [879] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartalism [880] Chapter: Debt Loop Fallacy [886] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_run [887] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_bank [888] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lender_of_last_resort [889] Chapter: State Banking Principle [890] https

The Light That Failed: A Reckoning

by Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes  · 31 Oct 2019  · 300pp  · 87,374 words

the sustained cooperation of many organized social interests, while the choice to emigrate is basically a solo or single-family operation, even though (like a bank run) it can become a cascade. The mistrust of ethno-nationalist loyalties and the prospect of a politically united Europe also helped make emigration the political

Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right

by Jennifer Burns  · 18 Oct 2009  · 495pp  · 144,101 words

forward in Objectivist scholarship. Another major source of funding for Objectivist scholars is the charitable foundation of BB&T, one of the country’s largest banks. Run by John Allison, an avowed Objectivist, BB&T has stirred controversy with its grants to universities that require the teaching of Atlas Shrugged. Most of

After Europe

by Ivan Krastev  · 7 May 2017  · 100pp  · 31,338 words

. “To endure is all.” But even enduring will not be easy. If the union collapses, the logic of its fragmentation will be that of a bank run and not of a revolution. The EU’s implosion does not have to result from a victory of “exiters” over “remainers” in state referenda; it

states in the union, an explosion of national referendums is the fastest way to make the union ungovernable. Such an explosion could even trigger a “bank run” that could catalyze the breakup of the union. Europe can’t exist as a union of referendums because the EU is a space for negotiation

Transcending the Cold War: Summits, Statecraft, and the Dissolution of Bipolarity in Europe, 1970–1990

by Kristina Spohr and David Reynolds  · 24 Aug 2016  · 627pp  · 127,613 words

backing, but his difficulties multiplied in late 1988 and early 1989, in large part because of rash economic moves that sent prices soaring, leading to bank runs and shortages of basic goods.17 American intelligence analysts picked up signs of this power struggle in early 1989. Yet, equally significant for US policy

Layered Money: From Gold and Dollars to Bitcoin and Central Bank Digital Currencies

by Nik Bhatia  · 18 Jan 2021

no longer desired, and their owners dump them for instruments higher in the hierarchy, such as gold coins. Contractions can result in redemption requests, called bank runs, and eventually financial crises. These crises can be more easily thought of as attempts to climb the pyramid of money, as holders of lower-layer

Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O'Connell's Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People

by Tracy Kidder  · 17 Jan 2023  · 270pp  · 88,213 words

good. BJ had refused to come into McInnis, or he had left McInnis AMA, because he got a check in the mail and missed the bank run, so he took off to cash the check and find some crack cocaine. “BJ’s big time wit’ crack now, Jim. That’s all he

Why Wall Street Matters

by William D. Cohan  · 27 Feb 2017  · 113pp  · 37,885 words

of the assets they were funding through various kinds of financial intermediaries,” he said in his July 2016 speech. He noted correctly that unlike the bank runs that typified the 1930s, when small depositors lined up to get their money out, in 2008 it was the institutions that ran for the exits

Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters

by Brian Klaas  · 23 Jan 2024  · 250pp  · 96,870 words

’s a disastrously flawed assumption because, in an intertwined world, some of your decisions might inadvertently cause an outcome you’re hoping to avoid. A bank run is a great example of this dynamic, in which it seems individually rational for you to withdraw your money from a risky financial institution. But

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Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models

by Gabriel Weinberg and Lauren McCann  · 17 Jun 2019

(e.g., three-strikes laws). Government regulations are often designed in part to deter unpleasant future economic or societal outcomes (e.g., deposit insurance deterring bank runs). Businesses also take actions to deter new entrants, for example, by using their scale to price goods so low that new firms cannot profitably compete

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The Only Game in Town: Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse

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