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Financial panics still require that practical men violate their own principles.
- gruseom 18y agoI find two things fascinating about this piece. First, it is a book review, but the book being reviewed is 135 years old. Second, it is effectively a defence of opacity and inequity in financial regulation. And it seems coherent, too, though verbose. But I hesitate to accept it without having read the book and without any experience in the realm of central banking.
- DanielBMarkham 18y agoI caught this article about a week ago but didn't think HN would like it that much. Since then, I've seen Bagehot mentioned or quoted in about half a dozen other articles. We think each time there's a financial panic that it's the end of the world -- unless we look long-term. None of these problems are new, and in fact they are most likely a built-in "feature" of central banking.