Bank for International Settlements for central banks, as speculative lending based on inadequate underlying capital and widely varying liability rules causes economic crises as "bad money drives out good" (Gresham's Law). Reserve policy is also important, especially to consumers and the domestic economy. To ensure liquidity and limit liability to the larger economy, banks cannot create money in specific industries or regions without limit. To make bank depositing and borrowing safer for customers and reduce risk of bank runs, banks are required to set aside or "reserve". Reserve policy is harder to standardize, as it depends on local conditions and is often fine-tuned to
Good Calories, Bad Calories "well-researched" and opines that Taubes’s conclusions are "somewhat startling yet surprisingly convincing." Journalism professor and food author Michael Pollan describes "Good Calories, Bad Calories" as "valuable" but believes that it "does not escape the confines of nutritionism." "New York Times" medical reporter Gina Kolata concluded that she was ultimately "not convinced" by Taubes’s arguments, writing that "the problem with a book like this one, which goes on and on in great detail […] is that it can be hard to know what has been left out." Laura Vanderkam reviewed the book somewhat negatively in "The American", the journal of the