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Regarding technical feasibility: I don't think the Fed has a system ready that could handle the amount of transactions and record keeping necessary for a system
by jcfrei 6y ago
Regarding technical feasibility: I don't think the Fed has a system ready that could handle the amount of transactions and record keeping necessary for a system which is accessible to the public. They would need to buy such a system. But more importantly so called narrow banks are not in the interest of regulators and the current financial system. If customers could directly deposit at the Fed they would likely disintermediate regular banks (which leads to a bank run) and prevent them from doing their central function in the financial system (issuing credit). You would have to rethink the financial system and regulators are wary of such big changes. Matt Levine has a great article about it: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-08/the-fed-versus-the-narrow-bank https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-08/the-fe...
- sanderjd 6y agoAh right, ha, that Matt Levine article is where I first saw this idea. My point actually wasn't that this is a good idea, but that it's a superior idea to doing the same thing with a blockchain based ledger. All the problems you outline are true for the blockchain solution as well.