Source: The Daily Economy
by Paul Moreno
“Banking is probably the most highly regulated industry in America, especially after the 2008 ‘financial crisis.’ Peter Conti-Brown and Sean Vanatta have produced the first comprehensive account of how our system came to be. This may be the best book ever written about bank regulation. For those inclined to say ‘That’s like being the tallest building in Topeka, Kansas,’ the absence of competition is significant. Banking has been conspicuously missing from scholarship on the administrative state.” [editor’s note: If you’re interested in trivia, the tallest building in Topeka, the state capitol building, is only three feet shorter than the tallest building in Washington, DC, the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception – TLK] (08/26/25)