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Bank Failures And Presidential Transitions

D&S Admin Nov 4, 2008

This is from Bob Feldman:

During periods of U.S. establishment presidential transitions in the past, U.S. commercial banks have sometimes failed. Presidential Transitions, by Laurin Henry, describes, for example, what happened after the 1932 presidential election:

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