During the Great Depression, the Bank of A. Levy in Oxnard remained open while hundreds of others closed, because the Levy family, which owned the bank, was able prevent a bank run by assuring nervous borrowers that their savings were secure. Decades later, Ben A. Bernanke, an MIT-trained economist, had the insight that governments could…
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