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News Roundup – April 18, 2023

Public Banking

State-owned Bank of North Dakota’s unique structure garners attention in wake of banking crisis | Eric Revell, Fox News

VIDEO: Kevin O’Leary: There’s an ‘incredible situation’ unfolding here; The success behind North Dakota’s public banks | Fox News

ND financial institutions assert good health in wake of bank failures elsewhere | David Olson, InForum

North Dakota Has the Country’s Oldest Public Bank. We Should Look to It as a Model. | Michael J. Lansing, Jacobin

How to Save a Dying Republic Part 2: Introducing Hamilton’s American System | Matthew Ehret, Substack

How to Save a Dying Republic Part 3: Lincoln and the Greenbacks | Matthew Ehret, Substack

Why don’t we have a public banking option in the U.S.? | Janet Nguyen, Marketplace

Removing The Federal Deposit Insurance Cap Could Transform Local & Public Banks | Oscar Perry Abello, Next City

Credit Suisse: Down the Drain, or Converting Into a Bank for the People | Peter Koenig, Global Research

Economy

VIDEO: Did big banks take over the Treasury? Bank crisis exposes public realities of private banking | Michael Hudson and Radhika Desai, Geopolitical Economy Report

10 days that shook the financial world | Izabella Kaminska, Politico

Credit Suisse Takeover in a Black Box – Untransparent Deal. Implications for the Failing Structures of Global Banking | Peter Koenig, Global Research

Ranked: The U.S. Banks With the Most Uninsured Deposits | Dorothy Neufeld, Visual Capitalist

Thank you Silicon Valley Bank… | Michael Shuman, The Main Street Journal / Substack

FDIC taps BlackRock to manage sale of failed bank assets | Ebrima Santos Sanneh, American Banker

Federal Home Loan Banks should do more than the minimum for affordable housing | Dennis C. Shea and Owen Minott, The Hill

Operation Choke Point 2.0 Is Underway, And Crypto Is In Its Crosshairs | Nic Carter, Pirate Wires / Substack

Senators Warn the Next US Bank Run Could Be Rigged | Matt Laslo, Wired

Party Like It’s 1907 | James Corbett, The Corbett Report / Substack

U.S. Dollar Continues To Slide | John M. Mason, Seeking Alpha

FedNow, the Federal Reserve’s alternative to blockchain and CBDCs, will launch in July | Jordan Finneseth, Kitco News

Shrugging off the Impending FedNow, TCH Marks Five Years of Real-Time Processing Growth | John Stewart, Digital Transactions

banking crisis groundhog day | el gato malo, bad cattitude / Substack

Seven Ideas to Prevent the Next Bank Crisis | Peter Coy, The New York Times

Wall Street’s ‘Dr. Doom’ sees ‘Bermuda Triangle’ of risks for economy and warns of a 2008-like crisis | Steve Mollman,
Fortune

The Coming Doom Loop: Near Insolvency of US banks. The Economy is Falling into a “Debt Trap” | Nouriel Roubini, Project Syndicate via Global Research

The end of private banking | Rodger Malcolm Mitchell, #Monetary Sovereignty

The Rise of Jamie Dimon | Whitney Webb, Unlimited Hangout

Cash, ATMs get a second wind as inflation rises, pandemic habits fade | Kate Fitzgerald, American Banker

How interest rate risk sneaked up on dozens of community banks | Polo Rocha, American Banker

Tennessee Governor Signs Bill to Protect State Funds with Gold and Silver | Jp Cortez, Mises Institute

In wake of failures, bank economists expect weaker credit quality, lighter lending | Jim Dobbs, American Banker

U.S. needs ‘a viable pipeline for the creation of new banks,’ says Fed’s Bowman | Kyle Campbell, American Banker

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