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“Americans do not have financial privacy, really at all. We have this illusion of financial privacy.” Cato policy analyst Nicholas Anthony summed it up bluntly in an interview with privacy advocate Naomi Brockwell. Beginning in 1970 the federal government passed a...
A record number of banks and credit unions are doing business with state-legal marijuana businesses despite ongoing federal cannabis prohibition – and attempts by the Federal Reserve to help enforce it. The federal Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)...
The failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) on March 10 was the second largest bank failure in US history. Just two days following SVB’s collapse, Signature Bank joined the record books as the third largest bank failure in US history. First Republic Bank also seemed on...
Imagine that for the last 100 years, the federal government’s policy was to bail out every business that was in danger of going under. The policy would consist of shoveling large amounts of subsidies into the business in order to help it remain in business. If,...