http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/federal-reserve Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Wed, 15 Apr 2026 03:02:32 -0400 Wed, 15 Apr 2026 03:02:32 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1302/in-praise-of-populism-the-coming-reconstruction-of-financial-regulation By Elizabeth Sanders - Newspaper and Television commentaries in the United States and Europe abound with references to "outbursts of populism" in United States as a stereotypically American response to economic crisis.1 Their story lines trivialize historic Populism in the U.S., both its substance and its contribution to financial regulation. American Agrarian movements arose in response to grievances rooted in pathologies of mature, weakly regulated capitalism. The agrarians had real grievances linked to rigidities of the gold standard and bank control of note issue, monopoly control of longdistance transportation... Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:00 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1302/in-praise-of-populism-the-coming-reconstruction-of-financial-regulation