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Catherine II (1762-1796)
Catherine, who was brought to power by the palace coup that deposed her husband Peter III, did not wish to retain Rastrelli in her service. After her seizure of the throne, the celebrated architect was dismissed and left the capital. During Catherine II's reign the internal appearance of the palace changed greatly. Some of the greatest architects of the Classical style - Yury Velten, Giacomo Quarenghi, Ivan Starov - laid the foundations for a new structure within the palace and created new decor for the interiors. Gradually, as the imperial family grew, all the corner blocks were converted into living accommodation - apartments sometimes extending over more than one storey. The core of each apartment was the private rooms of a particular member of the ruling dynasty.
Catherine II ordered the architect Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe to rework for her the rooms in the second storey of the south-east corner block that had been created for Elizabeth and subsequently occupied by Peter III. In the decoration of the Empress's state rooms and private apartments "palatial grandeur combined well with comfort". Depictions of the apartments have not survived: we have only plans, documents and descriptions of contemporaries. The largest room in the Empress's apartment was the Audience Chamber (or Throne Hall, 227 square metres) with four windows overlooking the square. In this hall, the decoration of which was marked by exquisite luxury, the throne stood beneath a canopy of carved and gilded wood with crimson velvet drapes embroidered with gold. In the adjoining room soldiers of the Cavalier Guards were in constant attendance. Access to the Throne Hall was a special privilege. "To pass the Cavalier Guards" meant to have free entry to the Empress's private apartments.
The way of life in the palace was shaped by a succession of greater and lesser festivities: receptions, "entries" - ceremonial processions by members of the imperial family from the apartments to the palace church or the Throne Hall on ecclesiastical feast days or special occasions, as well as audiences, balls, masquerades and theatrical performances attended by the glittering St Petersburg aristocracy. In one of her letters Catherine wrote: "Some two weeks remain until the fast, and meanwhile we shall have 11 masquerades, not counting the lunches and dinners to which I am invited. Afraid it might be the death of me, I commissioned my epitaph yesterday."
The courtiers belonging to the small circle of Catherine's intimates gathered in the evenings in the Diamond Room. The Empress liked to play cards there. Contemporaries describe the room as "a rich cabinet of precious things" where the state regalia were kept under a glass cover and cupboards contained "a host of jewellery with diamonds and other precious stones; in others there were a great many badges of orders, portraits of Her Imperial Majesty [that were presented as awards] … and other precious things". When the weather was cold, church services would be held in the Diamond Room. In winter the palace was far from warm. On 27 December 1779, for example, "on account of the great frost" a ball had to be cancelled. The building was heated by stoves that were very decorative - with tiles and gilding - but failed to give enough heat.
A special privilege was an invitation to visit the mezzanine finished in an oriental style that was constructed above the Empress's apartments. It was reached by a spiral staircase concealed by the leaves of a cupboard in the Mirror Study. The mezzanine housed a large collection of applied art, cameos, coins, medals and miniatures - everything that the Empress referred to in her letters as "the Imperial Museum". A mezzanine above the first storey contained the rooms of her favourite, Count Grigory Orlov. Alongside, directly beneath the Great Church, the royal bathhouse was created with a "soaping-room", pool and rooms for relaxation.
Catherine's old rooms in the western wing were later occupied by the Empress's grandsons, Alexander and Konstantin. To create new apartments for her granddaughters, she gave orders for the dismantling of the Opera House in the south-western corner (architects: Yury Velten and Ivan Starov, 1783-88) that for twenty years had been the centre of theatrical life in the capital. In 1783 Catherine signed a decree on the construction of a new masonry theatre beside the Hermitage.
In September 1793 the Empress gave her favourite grandson, Alexander, and his bride (Yelizaveta Alexeyevna) a "special present" for their wedding - apartments in the north-western corner block that had been decorated by Ivan Starov in 1788-93 with exceptional luxury and refinement. Their rooms were created in place of the Oval Hall that Antonio Rinaldi had made specially for masquerades in the space that Rastrelli had intended for the Throne Hall. From the main Ambassadors' Staircase the young couple's apartments were reached by way of the Neva enfilade of state rooms that were completely altered in 1790-93 by Giacomo Quarenghi. In place of five antechambers he created a magnificent suite of rooms that were faced with artificial marble and embellished with columns, bas-reliefs, statues and ceiling paintings.
In Catherine's time, too, the second suite of state rooms, running from the Ambassadors' Staircase to the Great Church, also reached its logical completion. In 1787-95 Quarenghi added a new eastern block to the palace, containing the Great Throne Hall that could be reached by way of the White Gallery. Decoration of coloured marbles, a ceiling painting, gilded bronze ornament and a patterned parquet floor created an attractive and complex palette of colours in the Throne (or St George) Hall. The Apollo Hall behind it provided a link to the Picture Gallery in the neighbouring building of the Small Hermitage.
The state rooms were the setting for grand receptions for distinguished guests, foreign monarchs and ambassadors, celebrations of Russian military victories and the conclusion of peace treaties, balls and masquerades. A foreigner invited to one such event in the Winter Palace in 1778 wrote: "The wealth and opulence of the Russian court exceed the most fanciful description… The sumptuous brilliance of the court apparel and the abundance of precious stones leave the magnificence of other European courts behind".
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Mexican President Peña Nieto Says No To Privatizing PEMEX
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Young Mums!!
Just wondering what the age range is of a "young mum", well what age ppl consider mums to be young?
I was pregnant at 22, had dd at 23 and now im 24. I look young for my age, so people assume im a young mum... am I? lol!
I know it makes no difference, but there are a lot of younger(than me) mums but also a lot of older (than me) mums!
Argh im confused... how old do you think a young mum is?
Im tempted to say anything below 21 but then you have to think about maturity rather than just age! Im rambling now, what r your thoughts?
03-05-11, 00:41 #2
hmm i dont know really.
ive always thought of myself as a young mum, had my son at 21 (almost 22) im now 23 (24 in june)
03-05-11, 07:33 #3
I consider young mums to still be in their teens
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Being an older mum (nearly 40), I consider anything below 28 a young mum. .
But really in real terms I would early 20's and under.
03-05-11, 11:00 #5
hi i was a young mum, i fell pregnant at 16 and had my dd at 17, iam now 21.
steph xx
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I guess I still class myself as a young mum. I'm 24 and baby number 5 is due in September. I had my 1st at 16 xx
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I had my daughter at 18, I'm 21 now and would still consider myself a "young mum"
03-05-11, 23:20 #8
thanks for your opinions ladies! xx
03-05-11, 23:41 #9
I fell pregnant at 17 had my boy at 18 and I am now 20 with baby no.2 on the way. Being a young mum I found it very hard going to groups as the majority of mums were a lot older than me. But to be honest once I started talking to a few of them and they were first time mums to they also were finding it hard or going through similar stages as me with there baby.
Having my boy really made me grow up a lot and I am happy in a way that it has. I still have my immature moments because I think I would go insane if I didn't lol. The only thing that gets me down is the younger mums that get pregnant and then don't want to look after there babies, I no a few girls from my year at school who are like this and I just feel so sorry for there babies.
But I am a proud young mummy and looking forward to having baby no.2 in august and enjoying my beautiful little boy. xx
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Surpose the reason i see myself as a young mum is because women are having babies later in life (career first). i have been to some mums and tots groups and have been only person there under 30.
I have no issue with being called a young mum, im very proud of my family
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I'm 21, I think of myself as a young mum!
Although, I had my daughter at 19 and don't think that 18/19 year olds should be classed as 'teen mums'.... late teens perhaps are young mums....from 18 you're an adult (or so they say) but anything under 17 is a teen mum....!!?
04-05-11, 11:18 #12
all the childrens centres ive been to the young mum groups are for under 21's so i guess thats the age limit??
i still consider myself a young mum and im 24 with three girls xx
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I consider myself as a "young mum". I concieved my first son when I was 19- He was born when I was 20 last september. I am now expecting my second child who is due in December I will be 21 on Saturday Excitedddd!
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i would say 25 is young.
im 23 although feel 35 with 3 kiddies under 5, i was 18 when i had my eldest.
teen mums are upto 18 as a pp said from 18 you are an "adult"
i think anything under the average age of being a mum should be counted as young
04-05-11, 22:51 #16Lynne W(139)
I had my first at 23 and my second at 25. Don't really think i'm a young Mum as such but most of the other Mummy's in my area are ALLOT older than me.
I definately think that my situation is better than theirs IMO. I wouldn't want to have little ones running around when i'm 40+...i'll be on a beach somewhere by then
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Oh and I am not saying mums in their early 20's are young either
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I think of anything under 25 as young but then I had my babies at 33 and 37. My niece had her baby at 22 and I think of her as very young, but she is a fab mum.
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I am 27 and my daughter is 18months and i consider myself to be fairly young really. I have mum several friends in their late 30's so perhaps that is why i think that.


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Oakland Raiders quarterback Terrelle Pryor has been ruled out of Sunday's game versus the Houston Texans with knee injury that he's been dealing with for the past month. Head Coach Dennis Allen acknowledged that Pryor encountered a setback on Friday after sharing reps with rookie Matt McGloin in Thursday's practice. Pryor leads the team in rushing with 68 carries for 504 yards and two touchdowns. He's kept the Raiders respectable to say the least.
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The Seattle Seahawks will not only have wide receiver Percy Harvin make his 2013 NFL debut today against the Minnesota Vikings, but they could also get Pro Bowl left tackle Russell Okung back. Okung"s return could drastically change that, as he was playing like one of the best tackles in the game but has been out since getting a toe injury in Week 2, and it now looks like he's ready to come off the short-term I.R. and play today:
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Here's a version detection solution for All-Seeing Eye, an old-school
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Pairing: Kanji and Naoto (of course)
Warnings: SPOILERS TO THE END OF THE GAME, spoilers to the Persona 4 anime, spoilers to everything o.k.? Angst, character death (?), attempting to use Kanji's wonderful dialect, and the fact that I haven't written fic in a long time.
Notes: Got this idea after seeing the preview for the last episode of the anime and seeing that the team gets third level personas. Considering how their persona leveled up in the anime, I thought, well now that there's a third level, maybe they'll level up like this. Also, I like how the anime made it so when the persona was hit, the persona user felt it, so I mix that idea in this fic with the standards of the game (you know, the characters having weapons and all that).
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is it me or this is like the weirdest shit ever?…what are they doing…is naoto playing with her hat?…also hanged dead bodies along with this cheery, relaxing music …am i on drugs? wtf….i also said the scooters were weird and awkward before but…holy mother
I dislike KanjixRise ships. To me it's like when people ship brothers and sisters
but i feel they are bffs more than like sibilings
are there any yukikos or yus who ship yukikoxyu?
are there any chies or yosukes that ship chiexyosuke?
are there any (moar) naotos or kanjis that ship kannao?
are there any rises or teddies that ship risexteddie?
this are my otps and while i do follow some kanjis and naotos i would like to have more and have some more of this other couples in my dash, so this has to be like…their otp or something XD pretty please <3
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yes, i was left for the fouls of the earth to ravish my torned being. yet, there was a power
great amd massive that i was taken to a horrendous place to wax in strength and wisdom. i
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yet i did behold the tragic acts of cruelty and deeds of viciousness, but it stayed from my
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twin pearl brown-eyes, His kissed me and told me that this too will pass my beloveth son.
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call if need be. i have learned the patience of life in order that life can be preserved for those
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Pronunciation: /ɡrɒ̃ ˈpriː /
noun (plural Grands Prix pronounced same)
1Any of a series of motor-racing or motorcycling contests forming part of a world championship series, held in various countries under international rules.
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Woods to rest elbow, willnot play until British OpenBy DOUG FERGUSON
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Tiger Woods winces after hitting from the rough during the third round of last weeks U.S. Open.In little more than a month, Tiger Woods went from being tough to beat to having a tough time even playing.
Woods said Wednesday that soreness in his left elbow would keep him from defending his title next week in the AT&T National at Congressional, and that he would not compete again until the British Open next month at Muirfield.
This is the sixth straight year that injury has kept him from either playing a tournament or finishing one.
The culprit this time is a strain in his left elbow. The problem first became apparent during the opening round of the U.S. Open last week at Merion, when he was flexing his left wrist or dangling his arm behind his back after shots out of the thick, punishing rough.
I was examined after I returned home from the U.S. Open, and the doctors determined I have a left elbow strain, Woods said on his website. I have been advised to take a few weeks off, rest and undergo treatment. Ill be ready to go for the British Open, and Im looking forward to playing at Muirfield.
His injury is a blow to the AT&T National, which benefits the Tiger Woods Foundation. This will be the third time since it began in 2007 that Woods has missed the tournament because of injury knee surgery in 2008, his left Achilles tendon in 2011 and an elbow injury this year.
Any time you have Tiger in the field, it certainly adds to it a lot, tournament director Greg McLaughlin said. But we have a very nice field this year and we look forward to a great AT&T National.
Masters champion Adam Scott and U.S. Open champion Justin Rose are among those scheduled to play.
McLaughlin said Woods is to be at Congressional at least on Wednesday to take part in the opening ceremonies.
Woods was not specific about when or how the latest injury happened. He first showed signs of being hurt after hitting shots in the rough during the rain-delayed opening round at Merion, though he told a USGA official it was fine when he left the course Thursday evening.
After finishing the first round Friday morning, he said only that the reason he grimaced after shots out of the rough was because of pain and that he felt it on a few shots. That afternoon, he revealed that he first hurt his elbow at The Players Championship, but he declined to say which round or on what kind of shot. Woods won The Players Championship on May 12 for the first time in 12 years. It was his fourth PGA Tour win of the season.
Woods picked up those four in just eight starts worldwide, and the win at Sawgrass was his third victory in his last four tournaments. The exception was the Masters, where he tied for fourth, four shots out of a playoff.
But the last two tournaments have produced a surprising outcome.
At the Memorial, where Woods was a five-time winner and the defending champion, he had the worst nine-hole score of his career with a 44 on the back nine that led to a 79 in the third round. He tied for 65th and finished 20 shots behind, his largest deficit for a full-field event. At Merion, he wound up with a 13-over 293, his highest score ever for the U.S. Open and tied for his highest 72-hole score in any major.
Even so, the announcement Wednesday was surprising. Woods had said Friday at Merion that he would not have withdrawn even if it were not the U.S. Open. He was not asked about his elbow the rest of the week.
It will be the 10th time Woods is unable to defend a title in official PGA Tour events, with six of those related to reconstructive surgery on his left knee after he won the 2008 U.S. Open at Torrey Pines. The last time he failed to defend was in 2010 at Bay Hill, when he was returning from the scandal in his personal life.
His website said he felt minor discomfort before going to Merion and aggravated the area last week.
Woods extended his regrets to AT&T, secondary sponsors and fans in Washington for not being able to play.
The AT&T National means a lot to me and my foundation, he said. Its especially difficult not defending at my own tournament. Its going to be a great event, and I look forward to being there to provide my support.
AT&T is under contract as title sponsor through 2014. The Dallas-based company recently announced that it would take over as title sponsor for the Byron Nelson Championship starting in 2015. It also is the longtime title sponsor at Pebble Beach.
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iStar Financial, Inc. (NASDAQ:STAR)
A publicly-traded finance company focused on the commercial real estate industry which provides custom-tailored financing to end private and corporate owners of real estate.
The only reason I can see for the dip in price to current levels ($8-9) is an undeserved correlation between their business and the downturn in FRE and FNM. iStar does make loans, but they are also a major property owner. One example is purchase lease-backs which give the original owner upfront capital and gives iStar a committed tenant, income stream, and a piece of property. Unlike companies like TMA who had to sell stock at depressed levels to raise capital to avoid margin calls and bankruptcy (diluting shareholder value), iStar was recently able to sell $750 million in senior securities without having to sell shares of stock. Additionally, they were able to sell or use their property ownership to open up additional cash. This money is not for avoiding bankruptcy, they are financially stable as it is, it's for investing! The sale of the TimberStar forestland is another property ownership example that made them $250 million in gains. This transaction, btw, closed April 1st and should blow the 2nd quarter expected earnings out of the water, give fairly good insurance for all dividend payments this year, and may even result in a special dividend. I am not as proud of their purchase of the Fremont loan portfolio, but they have priced in a heafty loss into the price they paid for it. Additionally, these were commercial loans and should pay off within 3 years. For the ones that don't, iStar is perfectly positioned with their property management group to own the properties and find the best way to make money from them, be it selling, or leasing them out. I am proposing current value somewhere around $22.5 and 2009 quarterly dividend of 80 to 87 cents. These guys are very committed to their dividend though and would only reduce it if there was no other option.
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PITTSBURGH, Pa. - The Pittsburgh Penguins placed defenceman Brooks Orpik on the injured reserve Monday with a concussion.
Orpik was knocked unconscious by Boston's Shawn Thornton in the first period of a 3-2 Bruins' win on Saturday night. Orpik left the ice on a stretcher when Thornton grabbed Orpik from behind, threw him to the ice and punched him.
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She's a Waitress (and I'm in Love) Lyrics - 5 Chinese Brothers
Tom Meltzer
She reminds you of your mother in a dirty sort of way
When she brings you your food and she takes it away
She smiles at you when you clean your plate
Makes you feel like a big strong man
Is she winking at you or is that something in her eye?
Are you making too much of her giggles and sighs?
The only thing you've talked about is coffee and fries
But she's a waitress so she understands
So, you take my order, I'll take my time
I'm looking you over while I'm making up my mind
Put on the skillet, put on the bread
I'll pretend I'm home, getting breakfast in bed
She don't leave me fed up, she just leaves me well fed
She's a waitress and she understands
In her tight uniform with a low-cut neck
sponsored linksAnd the way that the grease mixes with her sweat
She smells as good as the inside of a new Corvette
She fits your dreams like a baseball glove
And when she smiles at you, that's when you realize
That's not the way she smiles at all the other guys
You see her sneak a peek from behind the pies
She's a waitress, and you're in love
(last line: She's a waitress, and I'm in love)
Now you see her give the fry-cook a secret kiss
And the ring on her finger that you previously missed
Maybe you're not the guy she can't resist
And your breakfast is almost done
So you swear that you'll never fool yourself anymore
Then you remember as you're walking out the door
There's still lunch and dinner and a thousand meals more
With a waitress at every one
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In order to understand a regulated banking system, you must have a conception of what the banking system would look like without government. Free banking may be something like pure capitalism: we've never actually seen it. However, we've never seen truly free trade either, but we have a conception of what it would look like, and how restrictions like tariffs affect it. To understand how the banking system works with regulation and central banks, you must have a basis for a theory of free banking. It isn't about libertarianism and things being free for the sake of being free. It's about knowing how the banking system is affected by regulation and central banks. If a monetary economist wants to preach about central bank policy, ask them about free banking. If they don't understand what life would be like without central banks and regulations, they literally have no idea what they're talking about.
In most people's minds, there is no alternative to the government issuing currency and regulating banks the way they do. A common argument is that the financial system is just too important to leave to the whims of the private sector. This is the wrong thing to focus on. Food is pretty important. Trade is pretty important. Energy is pretty important. Health care is pretty important. It's hard to envision a major sector of the economy that isn't important and that we'd prefer not to have messed up. The better question is: does government involvement make the financial system work better?
Depositors currently have no risk up to the FDIC insurance limits. Unfortunately, taxpayers still do. Government schemes to "eliminate" risk in the banking system have resulted in taxpayers facing greater systemic losses. There have been multiple financial crises since the arrival of the Fed. Depositors are safe, but taxpayers are not. The idea that risk from the banking system has been eliminated due to deposit insurance, regulations, or the existence of the Fed is really just an illusion. And as long as the government wants to bailout financial institutions, the moral hazard created makes the "elimination" of risk even more laughable.
In free banking, the counterpart for deposit insurance is bank capital. You would put your money in a bank with a lot of capital. Any losses the bank suffers as a result of bad loans comes from that capital. If it over issues, it will suffer reserve losses and a liquidity problem which will constrain it quickly. If it makes bad loans, then its problem will be insolvency which will come out of capital first. Only after the capital is exhausted do the depositors and note holders bear losses. In free banking, there is a real onus on bank shareholders to protect their capital i.e. investment. Before the establishment of the Fed, it was common for banks to have capital in the amount of 30% their liabilities. Central banking eats away at bank capital because it's a substitute for bank capital. The Fed acts as a lender of last resort, has an open discount window, and holds deposit credits. Plus the FDIC offers insurance. Owners of free banks have unlimited liability and they don't want to lose their investment.
Free banking is a banking system without any special regulations. That is, where government treats banks like normal companies which make real goods and services. There would be no deposit insurance, lender of last resort, or legal restrictions on interest rates, portfolios, branch banking, and currency issuance. There might not be any special role for government in free banking other then the enforcement of contracts, which is vital to all economic endeavors. With a commodity monetary base like a gold or silver standard, the banks could do everything the government currently does. Banks that go insolvent would bear losses to depositors, but in a free banking system it would be easier to facilitate a takeover or merger which could mediate such losses. Also, the shareholders of the bank are the ones which often lose the most. They want to protect their capital position. Depositors would face a positive probability of losing their money, or part of it. But this only means people actually would have to do some due diligence on who to bank with. Currently, most people do nothing more than make sure the FDIC emblem is on the door (if that). You should spend more than two seconds on who you consider worthy to hold all of your money. It would be no different than researching cars or laptops as a consumer. You wouldn't just blindly pick one and go for it devoid of any information about it. If you were shopping banks, you'd want to look at the bank's capital position. You'd want to find out what notes issued by other banks and checks they are willing to take and consider current. You'd want to see what banks work with the clearinghouse and get a report from them. Consumer research and involvement would help limit the number of shoddy banks.
The Fed didn't mark the beginning of government involvement in banking. Governments have always held a heavy hand. For one, branch banking used to be prohibited in the United States. Almost all banks were single office unit banks which remained true many decades after the Fed's establishment in 1913. This lack of branch banking meant that single banks were subject to all of the market risks and shocks of one single community i.e. no diversification. It would be like an insurance company only issuing homeowner's insurance on the Gulf Coast. Hurricane Katrina would wipe them out. As a bank, if you are allowed to open branches in different communities, cities, and regions, all of the sudden your depositors and debtors come from many industries with many different macro-economic environments. One shock wouldn't necessarily put the bank under.
Banks were also heavily restricted on issuing currency in the US. Before the Federal Reserve, banks and mints were supplying money. Many banks could issue their own circulating notes. However, these notes weren't distinct from one another in representing underlying monies. They all had similar claims to some underlying amount of gold. That is, if you were paid in a given bank's notes, you could take the notes to that bank and ask for the underlying gold it represented. There was a uniform monetary standard but no monopoly bestowed on the private banks for the issuance of the paper representative of the monetary unit. Established banks were not allowed to issue currency when needed. The proposal of the Federal Reserve and its 12 branches came about to address currency shortages. The currency shortages only occurred because of the regulations. There was nothing special about the Fed except that it wasn't subject to the same rules. While the Fed could address the shortages, they also gained the power to produce too much currency.
Prohibiting branch banking and restricting the issuance of currency alone caused all sorts of trouble for banks; the same troubles that were used to convince us we needed the Federal Reserve.
Banking has typically been a heavily regulated industry in countries that otherwise are fairly capitalistic and free market. The closest example of pure free banking that we know of was in Scotland from about 1750-1845. As it turned out, this is the time and place of the father of modern economics, Adam Smith.
Those Scottish banks showed that with private issuers of currency, there is a market restraint to over-supplying the monetary base. Of course increasing the monetary base with no respect to goods and services inflates the economy, devalues currency, and takes advantage of savers holding the currency. In free banking, if a bank made too many loans to its rivals, checks are drawn on those loans which are redeposited and cleared. The generous banks begin to run out of reserves. This puts a strict limit on money reserves as the form of deposits. When banks could issue their own notes, they were subject to the same discipline. If the bank made loans and the borrower took them in the form of the bank's notes, those notes would ultimately be received mainly by rival banks that would send them back for redemption. Competition worked to constrain the amount of bank notes any individual bank could issue in the system. That doesn't work if one bank has a monopoly on currency because its notes get treated like reserves by other banks. The central bank can expand without limitation and it encourages the other banks to expand as well. As we've seen with the Fed over the last few years, there seems to be no restraints on how far they'll expand the money supply.
If a bank was becoming insolvent, there would be signals. The clearinghouse would catch on that a bank is lending too aggressively before anyone else. They'd throw the bank out and other banks would stop accepting their notes. In addition, a note is a financial asset which is traded on a secondary market. Here the note is priced by experts in the market, including other banks. Once there is a question about a bank's solvency, its notes will go to a discount.
In the Scottish system, generally notes stayed at par and it was safe to deal with them.
Depositors would accept your notes if they believe you've been acting responsibly and only issuing an amount consistent with your long run survival. Individual banks can fail but the clearinghouse disciplines banks and keeps them from going overboard because they know what will happen if they lend too generously.
Many people believe free banking does not utilize fractional reserve banking. This is not the case. The typical Scottish bank held gold reserves of 1-2%, which evolved through trial and error. Everyone had the right to convert a Scottish bank note into gold but no one ever did it because of the faith in the system. Scots didn't want to hold gold and if someone paid in a gold ginni they would get rid of it and deposit it into a good bank for paper.
In the event of Scottish bank runs, banks were liquidated and often a complete payout of deposit and note holders occurred. Recourse before liquidation was an "optional clause" Scottish banks put on their notes. It said that they reserve the right to suspend payment on demand of the notes and gold. If banks exercised this right, during the period of suspension the note holder was paid a high interest rate. In effect, notes converted into bonds. This clause wasn't used often. It only occurred early in Scottish banking history when banks would try to gang up on upstart new rivals by piling up their notes and staging runs to force them out of business. This was called a note raid. The clause safeguarded themselves from raids by rival banks, but it was never used to protect against runs against their own customers.
If a bank was solvent but people were panicking with imperfect information, it would be advantageous for the bank to invoke the option clause and pay the high rate of interest. If a bank made bad loans and was insolvent, it wouldn't pay to invoke the clause, and they'd just shut down.
You can have free banking with any monetary standard e.g. gold, silver, fiat dollar, etc. That must be defined.
You could actually keep the Fed if you wanted to maintain the fiat dollar. The Fed could be nothing more than a maintenance institution for maintaining a fixed stock of bank reserves. It would have no discretionary powers to add or subtract, wouldn't be relied on for paper notes, and wouldn't conduct monetary policy. All monetary accommodation would be done by the private sector. You could privatize the Fed clearing system. In free banking, you'd want to have flexible reserve ratios. The banking system would issue notes and expand private deposit credits in response to greater public needs.
Currently, the Fed monopolizes currency which gives it ultimate leverage over the whole money stock. If you shut down the Fed in our regulated system, you'd risk a mismatch of quantity of currency relative to demand. But if banks had complete freedom, you could shut the Fed down by freezing the monetary base, creating a fixed stock of reserves. The change in monetary needs by the public would then be accommodated by the private financial system.
Many people believe the Fed has tamed the business cycle through the modern banking system. This perceived end of economic volatility has been coined "The Great Moderation." Recently, on the surface, this seems like a reasonable point of view. We've had sustained growth with only very brief and shallow recessions in the early 90s and early 2000s after the dot com bubble. The only problem is that this ignores the expansive monetary policy, artificially low interest rates, and easy money policies in the credit markets. This inflated a real estate bubble that served as the ultimate prolonged economic stimulus. People had tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of dollars to pull out of their homes like an ATM. What looked like a period of stability over the last two decades was really only setting the stage for a financial crisis and the Great Recession. We have also paid the price in inflation, the invisible tax.
The belief has been as long as the Fed hits an inflation target of around 2-4%, they can maintain moderate business cycles. Business cycles are basically the swing in overall spending, or aggregate demand. If there is too much spending, you'll have unsustainable growth and an inevitable correction, as we've seen with the housing bubble. If there is a collapse of spending, you'll see a recession and high unemployment. The only way to dampen the business cycle is to maintain a level of spending. The Fed pumps money into the system when the velocity of money declines to hit their inflation target. The velocity of money is how fast money exchanges hands and works through the economy. The Fed will suck money out of the system when velocity goes up to hopefully curb inflation and hit their target. The only problem is they make mistakes. Free banking accomplishes this naturally as a response to public needs in real time. If the velocity of money declines, free banks would tend to issue more money. Their demand for reserves is a function of a flow of payments through the clearing system. When that flow goes down, they can bring it back up again by lending more.
The price level is only an approximate signal as to whether there's too much or too little money in the economy. Again, you need stability in total spending, not the price level. Total spending and price levels are only more or less equivalent if you hold the productivity of the economy constant. Of course productivity is anything but constant. Consider the equation of exchange:
M (money in circulation) * V (velocity) = P (avg. price level) * Y (output)
Output can change as a result of productivity, so there's a relative price that has to change. Output price level should be allowed to decline if productivity is improving. Remember: we hope for productivity gains. That is a good thing. The Fed's inflation targeting doesn't really account for this.
The economy only gets more and more complex. Take some time and try to wrap your head around derivatives and you'll figure that out in a hurry. This is all the more reason to decentralize. It doesn't seem to me that the government has improved the function of the financial system. Financial institutions need to be allowed to fail. They can't be insulated from their risk any longer. In a free banking system, customers would have to take an active role in identifying the healthiest banks to do business with. Price levels in the economy would be allowed to decline if that's what productivity or market fundamentals called for.
My feeling is that the large financial institutions in this recent crisis were not too big to fail, but they may have been too interconnected. If one investment bank spent six to twelve months in bankruptcy court, other major banks that had loans, credit default swaps, and investments with the insolvent bank may have ran into trouble. But in a crisis situation, couldn't we find an orderly and efficient way to liquidate a bank? The FDIC shuts down failed banks over a weekend on a regular basis. Maybe the government should be working on efficient liquidations of private firms.
Instead, we have banks with the same toxic debt as before, and a Federal Reserve balance sheet loaded with bad debt. In return we get an exploding money supply without respect to productivity in the economy. Deflation isn't always bad. Housing needs to deflate. We overbuilt and consumers are over-leveraged. Deflation can actually promote stability if the rate of deflation stays in line with the rate of productivity growth.
There is a chance you'd lose your money in a free banking system. But, there is also a chance there will be a financial crisis under centralized control. If banks are not allowed to fail and customers take losses, you can end up with only lousy banks, or at least a propensity for them. As we're experiencing now, so many banks in our system have yet to liquidate toxic debt, the cause of their solvency problems. The Fed injecting liquidity into struggling banks or buying the assets outright doesn't clear those bad assets from the system. The costs of modern financial crises have been far greater than anything the Scottish free banking experiment ever encountered. The inability for taxpayers to actually control where bailout funds go and how effectively they're spent is a big problem as well. The political economy and special interests control that flow, which don't always correspond to the best interests of taxpayers.
Free banking will likely never happen in the United States, but it would be nice if more people talked about it. The system is a viable alternative with some attractive features. The problem is that many people see no alternative to government when it comes to regulating the banking system and monopolizing currency. Here's hoping this most recent financial crisis will spark some concerns.
A special thanks to George Selgin. His work helped educate me about free banking.
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Should be called Free Banking Scottish Experience, but whatever…
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