5  These ideas were also to be found in similar inquiries of that time in the United Kingdom (the Radcliffe Report) and in the United States (the Commission on Money and Credit). However, there were some differences in the argumentation of the three reports. For example, Radcliffe was most interventionist while Porter was the strongest advocate of market mechanisms.
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