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Making Money Safe, John Crawford
Making Money Safe, John Crawford
Notre Dame Law Review Reflection
Providing better options to hold money safely is desirable and feasible; failure to do so is a serious but fixable flaw in the legal architecture of money and payments in the United States. There have been a handful of proposals to mitigate this problem. The Federal Reserve (the Fed), however, is currently resisting an attempt to contribute to this effort. The project involves a new bank called “TNB USA Inc.” (TNB), which proposes to hold as its sole investment asset a reserve account at the Fed. (One of the Fed’s principal functions is to serve as a banks’ bank, providing …