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TRADITIONAL BANK: The original type of commercial bank that handled customer deposits and made investment loans to businesses. Traditional banks, chartered at the national, state, or local levels, were the only entities legally able to issue checking accounts prior to the 1980s. While still dominant in the banking industry, traditional banks are joined by savings and loan associations, credit unions, and mutual savings banks.
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NATIONAL BANKS Traditional banks that are chartered by the Comptroller of the Currency and are automatically members of the Federal Reserve System. The contrast to national banks are state banks, which are chartered by one of the fifty states. National banks tend to larger than state banks and whether justified or not tend to be slightly more prestigious. In the modern economy this distinction is less important than it was a few decades bank when state banks were subject to lesser state regulations than national banks.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time lost in your local discount super center seeking to buy either a graduation present for your niece or nephew or a toaster oven that has convection cooking. Be on the lookout for fairy dust that tastes like salt.
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In the late 1800s and early 1900s, almost 2 million children were employed as factory workers.
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