banking
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How reserve requirements limit how much lending a bank can do.
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How open market operations effect the rate at which banks lend to each other overnight.
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More on the mechanics of the Federal Funds rate and how it increases the money supply.
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Tools of the Central Bank to increase the money supply.
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Under Ken Wilcox's tutelage as CEO, Silicon Valley Bank has cashed in on a winning hand. He added a broker dealer of money market accounts to their existing commercial banking services with huge success. The bank now focuses exclusively on technology clients (save for a few holdovers from the premium wine vertical), and they've expanded their product suite to cater to this unique market appropriately. The institution altered its efforts to...more
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Tech companies deposit about seven times the amount that they borrow. And at Silicon Valley Bank, recalls CEO Ken Wilcox, the methodology his venture has used to invest these excess deposits is a micro-history of commercial banking itself. Learn the lessons of the bank's lending in the 1980's to 1990's, and its investment in real estate developers and under-served niche markets. Learn also how these plans failed to provide financial stabi...more
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Understanding the weak points of Fractional Reserve Banking.
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Pros and Cons of various banking systems. More on gold.
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Introduction to bank notes (which you are more familiar with than you realize).
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Introduction to how banks make money and the value they (potentially) add to society.
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Fractional reserve banking and the multiplier effect. Introduction to the money supply.
