It operates upon each bank and furnishes a motive for the withdrawal of currency from the channels of trade by each bank to save itself, and offers no inducement whatever for the use of the reserve to expand the supply of currency to meet the exceptional demand.
Taft discusses the negative impact of reserve requirements on currency supply during exceptional demand in his 1930 address.
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