Burton Abrams

Burton Abrams is a professor emeritus of economics at the University of Delaware, a research fellow of the Independent Institute in Oakland, Calif., and the author of The Terrible Ten: A Century of Economic Folly.

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  • Aug 25, 2023
    A massive bank failure has occurred, yet no headlines have been posted in the news or social media. This bank has lost close to a trillion dollars on its investments. Yet it...
  • Jul 17, 2023
    Bank runs are as old as the hills, but since 1933, federal deposit insurance has made them rare. Suddenly, bank runs are back in the news with the run on and failure of Silicon...