Swiss Roll Over to Full Reserve Banking? 'No' is The Best Way Forward

in banking •  6 years ago  (edited)

Carl Munson: Michael, what do you make of Switzerland's move to make fractional reserve banking a full reserve system? Should we ban banks from creating money?

[See Renegade Inc.'s illuminating article: https://renegadeinc.com/is-the-existing-banking-system-coming-to-an-end/]

Michael Brodie: The Swiss referendum on replacing the fractional reserve banking system with a full reserve banking system completed a few days ago with a resounding NO from the population. And in my view, quite wisely.

I'm a passionate believer in crypto-currencies and decentralised financial systems, and some would find my position at odds with that.

Whilst I believe that a full reserve banking system is inherently more stable than the worldwide system we have, I value much of what our civilisations have achieved, and I would not want to risk complete meltdown of our global socio-economic system, until we have a robust and extensively used alternative to take its place.

The frailty and, arguably, madness of a financial system based on debt, should not be dramatically tampered with without a clear understanding of the effect of the tampering. Unfortunately, we cannot rely on economists to accurately predict the results.


Staying in Switzerland, is this the shape of things to come: https://www.coindesk.com/swiss-city-plans-to-vote-on-blockchain-using-ethereum-digital-id/


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