Wildcat banking was the issuance of paper currency in the United States by poorly capitalized state-chartered banks. These wildcat banks existed alongside...

1016/0304-3932(84)90044-8. Dwyer, Gerald P. (1996). "Wildcat Banking, Banking Panics and Free Banking in the United States" (PDF). Federal Reserve Bank of...

This history of central banking in the United States encompasses various bank regulations, from early wildcat banking practices through the present Federal...

rise of the petroleum industry. An example was the wildcat banking of the 1850s. Directors of wildcat banks in the Midwest were known as "wild-catters"...

Look up wildcat in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wildcats (Felis silvestris and Felis lybica) are small cats native to Europe, the western part of Asia...

encouraged wildcat banking, in which fraudulent institutions issued worthless banknotes. During the Civil War, in 1863, the National Banking Act established...

repurpose this base money by credit creation through fractional reserve banking, which expands the total supply of "broad money" (cash plus demand deposits)...

utilizing the institutions. Banking was considered a Laissez-faire network, and was also described as "Free Banking" or "Wildcat Banking" filled with much uncertainty...

functioned akin to a bank. ... in fact, practically in every city there are banking places for the holy money ... — Philo In excavations of Persepolis, a text...

furnish an elastic currency for the United States and to supervise its banking system, particularly in the aftermath of the Panic of 1907. For most of...