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It's Saturday, May 13th, 20203, and this is Markets Daily from CoinDesk.

I'm Adrian Blessed here again with Adam B. Levine for your weekend story.

On today's show, we're taking a look at the inherently risky nature of today's financial system and why the U.S. government has blocked safer alternatives.

And just a reminder, CoinDisc is a news source and does not provide investment advice.

For today's featured story, we have an opinion piece from CoinDesk, Storch, Kulutis.

Our piece today is entitled, A Fractional Reserve Banking is a fraud, but it's genius.

The recent buyout of First Republic, the second largest bank failure in the U.S. entitled, A Fractional Reserve Banking is a fraud, but it's genius.

The recent buyout of First Republic, the second largest bank failure in the U.S. ever,

has raised serious questions about solvency and liquidity across the global banking system.

Banks are supposed to be stodgy operations.

Customers deposit money into a bank account for safekeeping and withdraw it whenever they want

to use it, and by and large,

...