That's the downside of
fractional reserve lending.
That is why it is called «
fractional reserve lending» — they keep a fraction as a reserve.
The only difference with conventional lending is that it prohibits dreaded
fractional reserve lending.
Not exact matches
Concurrent with this orgy of public debt, the State encourages massive expansion of private credit via
fractional lending, low bank
reserves, and other forms of leverage, in a vain attempt to stimulate demand in an economy burdened with overcapacity, declining employment, marginal return on capital and saturated markets.
Banking Rule # 1 does not say that
fractional reserve banks must
lend out their excess
reserves, only that they can not
lend more than their excess
reserves.
We discussed earlier that the banks benefit from
fractional reserve banking by being the first to access the new money that is created by their
fractional lending.
There is no limit as to how much Credit the banking system can create through
fractional reserve banking — other than the ability of the borrowers to pay interest on the money they have been
lent.
Either can be tweaked to curb
lending and prevent $ 700bln + from entering the economy and being multiplied by our
fractional reserve system.
Under the
fractional reserve banking system, depository institutions
lend out most of the deposits they receive from customers.
Any person who creates or originates United States money by
lending against deposits, through so - called
fractional reserve banking, or by any other means, after the effective date shall be fined under title 18, United States Code, imprisoned for not more than 5 years, or both.
Deposit insurance is only needed when money is created out of debt through
fractional reserve banking, and then that debt becomes the basis of more debt - based
lending in a vicious cycle of deceit.
I mean a normal person isn't allowed to
lend what he does not owe, but a bank can do that under the
fractional reserve rule.
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!
Fractional reserve banking is the practice of keeping only a fraction of a bank's demand deposits on
reserve, while
lending out the rest.
We do not leverage your collateral for other products or services (no
fractional -
reserve lending).