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Clearinghouses And Trusts Case Study

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with it. This causes the tectonic plate collision between Clearinghouses and trusts, eventually leading to an economic downfall in 1907. Overall, the 19th century United States banking system took on this structure and regulations due to politics and wartime decisions. These decisions may have been beneficial in the short term, but they ultimately created a system so exceptionally interconnected that it bred instability and panic throughout the externalities. The regulations placed on Clearinghouses created unintentional incentives for trusts to get around the rules to maximize profitability and play the game with a different set of rules. However, by avoiding the federal regulations, there was no safety net for these trusts to fall back on,

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