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Chapter 12: A Brief History of Banking — Economics 101

Banks aren’t vaults — they’re money factories. How banking evolved from Mesopotamian grain receipts to fractional-reserve goldsmiths to the modern system, and the surprising accounting trick by which a single deposit turns into many.
Chapter 13: Banks as a System — Regulation and Deregulation — Economics 101

Banks don’t operate alone — they lend to each other overnight, share contagion when confidence fails, and live or die by a regulatory framework that has swung between tight and loose for 160 years. How the fed funds market, bank runs, and the Dodd-Frank pendulum fit together.