What is the appeal for Internet banking? (Answer more than in terms of "bricks and clicks".) Could banks that spend millions of dollars on an Internet presence be facing a catch-22? How? What types of asymmetric information problems do Internet banks face as opposed to "brick and mortar" banks?

What effect has Internet banking had on the industry demand curve for banking? What implications does this have for both the banking industry and for bank consumers?

Explain the US banking system before from 1787 to 1861. Why was the Hamiltonian banking system considered controversial? What type of regulatory structure were free banks subject to? What types of banks received state charters? What is dual banking?

Why was the Secret Service created? What effect on banking in the U.S. did the National Bank Act of 1863 have? What effect on banking did the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 have?