Fractional reserve banking makes the economy more efficient by putting capital that would otherwise be hoarded in circulation.
Not exact matches
Here is a post from Libertarian News that begins, «I recently got into an argument over on the Reddit Bitcoin boards where I held the position that
fractional reserve banking with Bitcoins was not possible,» which sounds fun; he recants that view but does
make what I think is a very valid point:
Jamie Dimon is a Wall Street insider, JP Morgan has
made billions off of centralized fiat currency and
fractional reserve banking.
Central
banking is perhaps history's best example of government attempting to fix a problem — in this case, the instability resulting from the practice of
fractional reserve banking — and
making things much worse in the process.
(Note now that we are not talking about a free
banking system — I want to
make a point about
fractional reserve systems in general and show how the problem is that the system isn't free, not that it's based on
fractional reserves.)
Now instead of the
bank making all the money, you as the borrower, the lender, and the
bank, get to
make all the money once
reserved for
banks utilizing the
fractional reserve system.
Central
Banking 101 In the normal functioning of a fractional reserve banking system (McLeay et al., 2014), commercial banks create money when they take deposits and make
Banking 101 In the normal functioning of a
fractional reserve banking system (McLeay et al., 2014), commercial banks create money when they take deposits and make
banking system (McLeay et al., 2014), commercial
banks create money when they take deposits and
make loans.
The deposit multiplier is part of the money supply expansion activity by a
bank made possible with
fractional reserve banking.
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Fractional reserve banking often allows
banks to have small
reserves against which loans can then be
made out for larger amounts as usually most people do not withdraw their cash deposits at the same time.
Just like you said for Ponzi schemes «the only source of the so - called interest on the money was the contributions of future investors», for
fractional -
reserve banking the source of interest is the future profit
made by lending the investor's money - to the investors themselves!