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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.
Chapter 25: Monopoly — The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly — Economics 101

Not all monopolies are evil. Natural monopolies, patent monopolies, and government monopolies exist for defensible reasons. Unregulated monopolies are the problem — De Beers is the textbook ugly.