You guys have only had a Federal Reserve since 1913.
Before that you had individual banks exposing themselves and collapsing - since then, the Fed has worked to broaden the risk so that when one goes, everybody goes.
I'm not sure that's a better system, personally.
It appears to be the antithesis of making the component parts of your financial system small enough that the failure of any individual one can be tolerated. Since 1913, the US seems to have been diligently working towards a system where the taxpayer - being the only entity in this entire diagram that's allowed to be landed with the bill - is regularly shafted as ever-more parts of the system become "too big to fail"
Doesn't account for when you have to adjust rates to handle different economic cycles.
Who has to adjust which rates?
If we're talking interest rates, that would be something each bank would have to assess for themselves, taking into account that bank's circumstances. Not sure what other rates you'd be talking about...
so its time you abolish the federal reserve you are saying
What would you replace it with?
Statement: Abolish x institution
Why
State rights or something along those lines
Okay, what's the alternative?
You guys have only had a Federal Reserve since 1913.
Before that you had individual banks exposing themselves and collapsing - since then, the Fed has worked to broaden the risk so that when one goes, everybody goes.
I'm not sure that's a better system, personally.
It appears to be the antithesis of making the component parts of your financial system small enough that the failure of any individual one can be tolerated. Since 1913, the US seems to have been diligently working towards a system where the taxpayer - being the only entity in this entire diagram that's allowed to be landed with the bill - is regularly shafted as ever-more parts of the system become "too big to fail"
Okay so we go to back to a system of private banks. Doesn't account for when you have to adjust rates to handle different economic cycles.
Who has to adjust which rates?
If we're talking interest rates, that would be something each bank would have to assess for themselves, taking into account that bank's circumstances. Not sure what other rates you'd be talking about...