by John Tamny
The United States surely did experience a number of financial crises - 1873, 1884, 1893, and 1907 - prior to the Fed's charter. But Selgin writes that "by almost any measure, the major financial crises of the Federal Reserve era - those of 1920-21, 1929-33, 1937-38, 1980-82, and 2007-2009 most recently - have been more rather than less severe than those experienced between the Civil War and World War I." If greater financial stability had been the main purpose of creating the Fed, then it has failed on that score.
http://www.valueexpectations.com/blogs/do-we-really-need-central-bank10142010
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