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Cato Weekly Podcast • November 6, 2020 

# Postal Banking: A Bad Idea That Is Very Much Alive 

Should the Postal Service hold your bank accounts? Should the Postal Service extend credit to Americans? You’ll be hearing more about this ideas soon enough. Diego Zuluaga explains the flaws in postal banking.

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##### [Diego Zuluaga](/people/diego-zuluaga)

Former Associate Director, Financial Regulation Studies, Cato Institute

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##### [Caleb O. Brown](/people/caleb-o-brown)

Former Director of Multimedia, Host and Executive Producer, *Cato Daily Podcast*, Cato Institute