Instead, they are better able to utilize existing holdings of clients to free up liquidity in the banking system.

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This is probably why the Ayn Rand Institute, that flagship of right moral political philosophy, migrated its support from the gold standard to a system of free banking with private currencies.

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What supply-side measures Mr. King had in mind he refused to say, although it is notable that the Treasury last year rejected his advice to underwrite a further recapitalization of the banking system to free up the supply of credit.

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As I argued more than two decades ago, we should aim for a banking system without TBTF, but that means we need a banking system simultaneously devoid of unfair subsidies and free of overly-harsh regulations.

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First of all, its banking system had not quite been caught up in the free-market craziness that preceded the crash, so the "fundamentals" were OK in its financial system.

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Since Japan is struggling to free itself from a banking crisis caused partly by widespread connected lending (thanks to the system of corporate groups known as keiretsu, today's variant on the zaibatsu), Mr Ochi's preferences seem most peculiar.

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