THE GOLEMBE LIBRARY

These are the titles of past issues of The Golembe Reports by year, starting with 1967, through 1984.  We are in the process of adding brief descriptions of each report to assist researchers and others seeking information on specific issues. Please check back often.


Reports from 1967 through 1984

1984

1984-1             Agency Reorganization – Shadow and Substance

1984-2             Comparability in Thrift and Bank Regulation (Ira Tannenbaum)

1984-3             The Garn Bill – Transcript of a Dialogue that Never Took Place; and of One that Did

1984-4             Interstate Banking – A Time for Statesmanship

1984-5             Continental Illinois and the Case for Deposit Insurance Reform

1984-6             Continental Illinois – Additional Reflections

1984-7             Banking Legislation in 1984 – What Happened? (Mary Clare Fitzgerald)

1984-8             Capital Myopia


1883

1983-1             Regulatory Reform – Some Observations on the Bush Task Group

1983-2             Withholding, Deregulation – And a Confession or Two

1983-3             Are Banks Special? (Bruce Morgan)

1983-4             Birthday Greetings for the Banking Act of 1933

1983-5             Mr. Volcker’s Reappointment – What Significance for Banking Regulation?

1983-6             Interstate Banking – The Boiling Pot

1983-7             Banks That Are and Are Not? How Much of a Problem? (John Kareken)

1983-8             1983 – A Look Back; A Look Ahead


1882

1982-1             Interstate Banking and Thrift Industry Problems: The Pace Accelerates

1982-2             Deposit Insurance – A Sense of History and a Shattered Illusion

1982-3             Glass-Steagall and the Affiliate Issue

1982-4             The Actual Potential Competition Minuet: Who Should Be Made to Dance?

1982-5             Reflections on Bailouts

1982-6             Midsummer Reflections

1982-7             The Week of September 27 – a Certain Sense of Sorrow

1982-8             Banking Expansion, and Citicorp/Fidelity

1982-9             Meanwhile, Back at the Credit Unions . . . (Richard McConnell)

1982-10           Myths, Maxims, and Non-Banks


1981

1981-1             The New Politics of Interstate Banking

1981-2             Thrift Institutions and Catalysis

1981-3             Bache, Monetarism, and Federal Reserve Independence

1981-4             Technical Change and the Future of Banking: One Man’s View

1981-5             Product Constraints and Glass-Steagall

1981-6             The Thrift Institution Problem: A Dangerous Rush to Judgment

1981-7 I            Interstate Banking: Who’s In Charge?

1981-8             The Regulator’s Bill

1981-9             Congress and Banking – 1981-82


1980

1980-1             Reflections on a Decade

1980-2             James J. Saxon

1980-3             Christmas in March: The Conference Committee Report on H.R. 4986

1980-4             Handling Bank Failures

1980-5             The Predictability of Government

1980-6             How Many Commercial Banks in 1990?

1980-7             Bank Mergers and Acquisitions: What Next?

1980-8             Foreign Acquisitions of U.S. Banks: a Review of the Comptroller’s Study

1980-9             Capital Adequacy Once Again


1979

1979-1             Some Reflections on 1979 – And Beyond

1979-2             The Courts, the Banks, and Interstate Banking

1979-3             The Wonderful World of Q – Still Another Visit

1979-4             Variations on Some Recurring Themes

1979-5             This Matter of Banking’s Power

1979-6             Foreign Banking Activities in the United States

1979-7             A Child’s History of Interest Regulation – Once Again (Special)

1979-8             Paul Volcker: An Unlikely Monetarist Hero


1978

1978-1             The Changing Nature of Bank Supervision: A Sign From the States

1978-2             Turnover at the Central Bank

1978-3             Agency Consolidation: The Re-emergence of an Old Issue

1978-4             Waiting for the Christmas Tree

1978-5             Consumerism and Compliance

1978-6             Interstate Banking

1978-7             Agency Consolidation : A Piece of Unfinished Business

1978-8             Of restaurants and Central Banks

1978-9             The Arrival of the Christmas Tree

1978-10             The Community Reinvestment Act: The New Challenge


1977

1977-1             Reform, Proxmire Style

1977-2             The Politics of Demand Deposit Interest

1977-3             Section 4(c)(8) and the Federal Reserve Board – The Light That Failed

1977-4             Deposit Insurance Reform: Part Two

1977-5             The Future of Retail Banking

1977-6             The NOW Account – The Most Interesting Game in Town

1977-7            The Ironies of August

1977-8             Mr. Lance, Ethics, and Banking Reform

1977-9             Federal Reserve Membership and Public Policy

1977-10            Some Reflections on Some Recent Developments in Washington


1976

1976-1             Problem Banks and Regulatory Style

1976-2             Banking Reform – Once Over Lightly

1976-3             The Financial Reform Act of 1976

1976-4             Thank the Lord It Was 1876

1976-5             Some Reflections on Federal Reserve Independence

1976-6             Investment Banking – Minor Skirmish or Major Conflict

1976-7             The Anomalies of Banking in an Electronic Era

1976-8             Deposit Insurance Reform – Part One

1976-9             Back at the Farm . . . Once Again


1975

1975-1             Foreign Investment in the United States

1975-2             Of Commissions and Things

1975-3             New View on an Old Adversary

1975-4             Opposition to Nonbank Activities of Bank Holding Companies

1975-5             The Wave of Disclosure

1975-6             And the Walls Came Tumbling Down

1975-7             Reflections on the cost of Regulation

1975-8             Tremor or Landslide?

1975-9             4(c)(8) Revisited

1975-10            Interest on Demand Deposits


1974

1974-1             Uniform Reserve Requirements – Search for a Reason

1974-2             Assault on Glass-Steagall

1974-3             Some Further Reflections on Change

1974-4             Capital Adequacy: The Search for Certainty

1974-5             The Potential Competition Doctrine – 1974

1974                A Child’s History of Interest Regulation and Floating-Rate Notes (Special)

1974-6             Regulation of Foreign Banks

1974-7             Some Observations on Inflation and Banking

1974-8             Bank Failures and All That

1974-9             4(c)(8) Once Again

1974-10           "1975" – The Year for Federal Banking Regulation Reform"


1973

1973-1             Some Sensitive Issues in Federal Banking Regulation

1973-2             Social Responsibilities and the Limits of Banking

1973-3             Those Who Cannot Remember . . .

1973-4             Where the Action Is

1973-5             A Smattering of Ignorance

1973-6             The Potential Competition Doctrine, 1973

1973-7             Hunt Commission Report: The Second Time Around

1973-8             The Calm Passes for Bank Trust Departments

1973-9             Another Look at 4 (c)(8)

1973-10            The Year that Was


1972

1971/72-12/1  Report of the Commission on Financial Structure and Regulation

1972-2             Meanwhile, Back at the Farm. . .

1972-3             Banking Structure in Transition

1972-4             The McFadden Act and All that

1972-5             Dear Arthur. . . .

1972-6             Banking and the Politics of Confrontation

1972-7             The Prime Rate Revisited

1972-8             Forecasting Change

1972-9             The Delayed Rise of the New Generation: The 93rd Congress (Special Edition)


1971

1971-1             Banking and Politics

1971-2             New Developments on the Consumer Front

1971-3             A Tale of Two Bank

1971-4             The S.E.C. Institutional Investor Study: A Sleeping Giant For Bank Trust Departments?

1971-5             H.R. 5700: "The Banking Reform Act of 1971"

1971-6             Credit Unions on the Move

1971-7             A Midsummer Night’s Musings

1971-8             On The Prime Rate

1971-9             On Selecting a Theme

1971-10            Inflation Control: The Administration’s New Economic Program


1970

1970-1             Putting Humpty Dumpty Back Together Again-Can the Fragmentation of Banking Be Healed?

1970-2             The Wonderful World of Q – Revisited

1970-3             Washington Looks at Bank Trust Departments

1970-4             Will the Real Bank Regulatory Agency Please Stand Up?

1970-5             Tax-Exempt Bonds – Are They on the Way Out?

1970-6             Commission on Financial Structure and Regulation

1970-7             Some Further Observations on Bank Supervision

1970-8             A New Look at Deposit Insurance

1970-9             The Politics of the Payments System

1970-10             All We Want is Your Consumer Business

1970-11             The Bank Holding Company Legislation: Shadow and Substance


1969

1969-1             The Federal Reserve System’s "Independence"

1969-2             One Bank Holding Companies – End of the Road?

1969-3             A Section 4 (c)(8) for Bank Regulatory Agencies?

1969-4             Social Programs and New Financial Institutions

1969-5             Demand Deposit Banking – "The Rumble of a Distant Drum"

1969-6             One Bank Holding Companies – Too Many Unloving Critics and Not Enough Critical Lovers

1969-7             Has the U.S. Dollar Turned the Corner?

1969-8             Tax Reform and Commercial Banks

1969-9             Winds of Change in the Banking Agencies

1969-10            House Amendments to Bank Holding Company Act (Special Report)

1969-11             Some Reflections on Some Recent Developments in Washington


1968

1968-1             Branch Banking Developments

1968-2             Bank Mergers Revisited

1968-3             Crisis in Urban Housing: Where is the Money coming From?

1968-4             Bank Diversification and Financial congeneric Corporations

1968-5             The International Monetary system

1968-6             Some Random Thoughts on Bank supervision

1968-7             Legislative Developments Concerning Financial Congeneric Corporations (Special Review)

1968-8             Consumerism and Commercial Banks

1968-9             Congenerics – Once Again

1968-10             Prospects for Interstate Branch Banking

1968-11             Will the International Financial Mess be Nixon’s Undoing


1967

1967-1             Graduated Reserve Requirements

1967-2             Bank Mergers and Antitrust

1967-3             Pledged Assets and Deposit Insurance

1967-4             The Patman Report on Control of Commercial Banks

1967-5             The Trend to National Bank Charters

1967-6             The Federal Savings Institutions Bill

1967-7             Commercial Bank Bad Debt Reserves

1967-8             The Wonderful World of "Q"