This post concludes Notice & Comment’s symposium on Peter Conti-Brown and Sean Vanatta’s Private Finance, Public Power: A History of Bank Supervision in America. For prior posts in the series, click here. In December 1863, the first Comptroller of the Currency, Hugh McCulloch, offered the government’s aid to bankers who would join the new national banking system: “The […]

This post is part of Notice & Comment’s symposium on Peter Conti-Brown and Sean Vanatta’s Private Finance, Public Power: A History of Bank Supervision in America. For other posts in the series, click here. Private Finance and Public Power by Peter Conti-Brown and Sean Vanatta offers the comprehensive account of how financial regulation intersects at the frontlines with […]

This post is part of Notice & Comment’s symposium on Peter Conti-Brown and Sean Vanatta’s Private Finance, Public Power: A History of Bank Supervision in America. For other posts in the series, click here. Private Finance, Public Power, by Peter Conti-Brown and Sean Vanatta, is a contribution to the history of the administrative state, in addition to the […]

This post is part of Notice & Comment’s symposium on Peter Conti-Brown and Sean Vanatta’s Private Finance, Public Power: A History of Bank Supervision in America. For other posts in the series, click here. The goal of scholarship in law, in economics, or in general should be to expand our understanding of the world. Peter Conti-Brown and Sean […]

This post is part of Notice & Comment’s symposium on Peter Conti-Brown and Sean Vanatta’s Private Finance, Public Power: A History of Bank Supervision in America. For other posts in the series, click here. Peter Conti-Brown and Sean Vanatta’s Private Finance, Public Power: A History of Bank Supervision in America is ambitious in its temporal sweep, extending from […]

This post is part of Notice & Comment’s symposium on Peter Conti-Brown and Sean Vanatta’s Private Finance, Public Power: A History of Bank Supervision in America. For other posts in the series, click here. Reading Peter Conti-Brown and Sean Vanatta’s rich history of banking supervision in the U.S., I was prompted to ask myself whether there is a […]

This post is part of Notice & Comment’s symposium on Peter Conti-Brown and Sean Vanatta’s Private Finance, Public Power: A History of Bank Supervision in America. For other posts in the series, click here. Peter Conti-Brown’s and Sean Vanatta’s excellent history of bank supervision, Private Finance, Public Power, arrives at a crucial moment. Supervisory discretion is facing an […]

This post is part of Notice & Comment’s symposium on Peter Conti-Brown and Sean Vanatta’s Private Finance, Public Power: A History of Bank Supervision in America. For other posts in the series, click here. The administrative state is again at a cross roads. The Supreme Court seems poised to continue its march toward trying to fit all of […]

This post introduces Notice & Comment’s symposium on Peter Conti-Brown and Sean Vanatta’s Private Finance, Public Power: A History of Bank Supervision in America. For other posts in the series, click here. Bank supervision resists easy categorization. Sometimes, supervisors resemble cops on the beat, enforcing laws and pursuing violators. At other times, they are akin […]