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Too Big to Fail Before the Fed

Gary Gorton; Ellis W. Tallman
American Economic Review 2016 106(5), 528-532 open access
Too-big-to-fail" is consistent with policies followed by private bank clearing houses during financial crises in the U.S. National Banking Era prior to the existence of the Federal Reserve System. Private bank clearing houses provided emergency lending to