There is another way to design a banking system. The deposits of large institutional investors do not need to be backed by sliced and diced pieces of our homes to be "safe" (something that has proven not to be safe at all). The large institutional investors seeking safety are largely "us" -- the pension funds and mutual funds in which we have stored our savings and on which we rely for support when we can no longer work. Hundreds of years of history have demonstrated that the only reliable guarantor is the government itself.
Our pension funds and mutual
funds need a government guarantee just as much as our individual deposits do. But we don't want to be guaranteeing the
gambling and derivatives schemes of too-big-to-fail, for-profit Wall Street
banks playing fast and loose with our money.
Banking and credit need to be public utilities, operated for the benefit
of the public in plain sight of the public.
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