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Landmark Banking Bills of the Past Two Centuries
National Banking Acts of 1863 and 1864
 

Signed by Abraham Lincoln, the National Banking Acts created the federal bank charter, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and a uniform national currency. "The national system will create a reliable and permanent influence in support of the national credit, and protect the people against losses in the use of paper money," Lincoln said in his 1864 State of the Union address.

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The cause before the cause for slide #2... In the following story, Jill Lepore has it: San Francisco earthquake of 1906, Panic of 1907, then 16th Amendment and the Federal Reserve Act - http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/11/26/121126fa_fact_lepore - Harry Terris, data editor, American Banker
Posted by hterris1 | Tuesday, March 05 2013 at 11:14AM ET
Conspicuously absent: The Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act of 1980. I don't think you can talk about the history of U.S. banking without taking stock of this landmark law, which -- among other things -- had the huge impact of deregulating interest rates.
Posted by Debra Cope | Thursday, March 07 2013 at 12:30PM ET
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Posted by byelsxei i | Wednesday, March 20 2013 at 4:37PM ET
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