A Bank of One's Own
The obvious fact is that we don’t need private banks to run our payment system or provide deposit accounts. It can be done perfectly well by allowing individuals to have accounts at the central bank through a postal savings system.<p>There is probably some value in having banks to do loan underwriting and allowing private credit creation but this whole thing if allowing private banks to run everything and then providing a federal guarantee of some deposits is absurd, just take that function away from the private sector.