Talk:Bank Holiday
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- The USA equivalent is a Federal Holiday.
Removing US-centrism. This article is about the UK. The US has nothing to do with it. -- Tarquin 16:52 24 May 2003 (UTC)
But isn't it nice to know what the equivalent concepts in other countries are? Cross-linking between articles on different countries' versions of the same things is good, because it enables one to compare and contrast how they do things. -- Oliver P. 17:00 24 May 2003 (UTC)
- I am a Brit, and I put in the link to Federal Holiday. I had just edited that article, and linked back to the UK equivalent from there as well. I am the first to castigate US-centrism, but they can't be blamed for this. jimfbleak 17:29 24 May 2003 (UTC)
- ah. But then we'd have to link to a HUGE list of equivalents, unless there are some which are particularly similar. We link up to public holiday, no? sorry for paranoia! ;-) -- Tarquin 17:41 24 May 2003 (UTC)
- OK, sorry for snappiness, feel free to revert my revert. jimfbleak 17:48 24 May 2003 (UTC)
In the US, the term "bank holiday" sometimes refers to the practice during the Great Depression of forcing banks to close to prevent the rapid withdrawal of all funds from a bank, which would have led to bank insolvency of course. Thus bank holidays were used to slow down panic attacks. -- Myria 22:09, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)
the "Bank Holiday" of 1933 that you are refering to created a new type of banking in the united States of America, look in Blacks Law Dictionary Fourth edition, member banks of the Federal Reserve System can only conduct banking business during an emergency declaired by the President. Are the banks open? Yes, and we are still under that national emergency declaired by FDR. The Tradeing with the Enemy Act of 1917 was also ammended by FDR to include citizens of the United States as the enemy's. January 26, 2005
Many people call the first May bank Holiday "May Day", shouldn´t that go in the article? --Villamota 13:18, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
Australian Bank Holiday
Anyone know anything about the Australian Bank Holiday? It seems to fall on the first Monday of August based on 2005 - 2007, but I can find no definitive evidence anywhere... --postglock 05:40, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)