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Economic Commentary

A Beginner's Guide to the U.S. Payments System

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High living standards depend critically on many types of infrastructure—bom technological and institutional — that few fully comprehend. The payments system, the means by which funds are transferred between economic agents, is one such critical support.

07.01.1994EC 7/1/1994

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Bauer, Paul. 1994. “A Beginner's Guide to the U.S. Payments System.” Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Economic Commentary 7/1/1994.

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