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He is considered an authority on the history and theory of free banking.

Although many customers believe they are benefiting from free banking, research by Which?

During the free banking era, some local banks took over the functions of a central bank.

The book brought respectability in academic economics to the idea of free banking.

Even they give us free banking for a year and then charge us when we can afford to pay.

Henry Meulen was notable for his support of free banking.

His general conclusions were in favour of free trade and free banking.

The following decades marked the height of the Swedish free banking era.

The free banking reforms were seen as a part of a greater struggle for liberty and hence much was expected from them.

It will also offer free banking to new free schools and academies, to help get them off the ground.

Free banking is available as long as the account does not become overdrawn by more than £100.

Among the messages is one about free banking by personal computer, which Citibank and other banks have been offering for a decade.

Although other banks aren't expected to abandon "free banking" imminently, they will do doubt be watching this move with interest.

This concept has a long history in which free banking institutions have issued their own paper currency often backed by a physical commodity.

Free banking was brought in by the big banks to fight off the challenge of building societies, who were offering high-interest accounts.

This is one reason offered in support of free banking, a gold standard, or at a minimum the reduction of political control over central banks.

Free banking gone awry: the Australian banking crisis of 1893.

Mutualists argue that free banking should be taken back by the people to establish systems of free credit.

Customers still get landed with unexpected bills for bank charges, despite the arrival of the age of free banking.

He also pledged that Midland did not intend to end free banking for personal customers in credit by introducing new charges.

He also has become a leading advocate of free banking, the belief that money should be issued by private companies, not by a government monopoly.

A bulk of evidence suggests that the free banking laws indeed helped the growth of the number of banks.

Free banking spread rapidly to other states, and from 1840 to 1863 all banking business was done by state-chartered institutions.