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Free Banking Era

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FREE BANKING ERA

KEVIN EAGAN

in 1832. President Jackson, an anti-federalist is reelected and vetoes the rechartering of the Second Bank of the United States.

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Without a central bank system. Local banks were not insured and could print their own currency

strength of banks varied from state to state, with regulation and supervision uneven.

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During the free banking era, the banks were short-lived compared to today's commercial banks, with an average lifespan of five years. About half of the banks failed, and about a third of which went out of business because they could not redeem their notes.

The free banking era only exist because there was no national bank to regulate the state banks.

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