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Robert Kuttner

Back-to-basics banking

By Robert Kuttner
October 11, 2008

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"Simplify, simplify, simplify!" Henry David Thoreau ONCE WE have a functioning banking system again, banks need to go back to the basics - taking in deposits and making loans - so that investors and examiners can once again know that their assets have worth. (Full article: 701 words)

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