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- From: donald@sq.sq.com (Donald Teed)
- Subject: Re: The debt
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.005411.3189@sq.sq.com>
- Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, Canada
- References: <1992Dec16.021351.16336@julian.uwo.ca>
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 00:54:11 GMT
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- wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne Smith) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Dec16.002004.25480@sq.sq.com> donald@sq.sq.com (Donald Teed) writes:
- >>>I'm glad you're not my accountant. If I deposit $100 in the bank, I'm loaning
- >>>the bank $100. That means I have a $100 asset and the bank has a $100
- >>>liability.
- >>
- >>No that means the bank has your $100 dollars and the bank can now loan out
- >>about $1000. If you didn't know this you have been living in a hole.
-
- >So where does the bank get the additional $900?
-
- You have missed all of the other postings made here?
- The bank does not "get" the money. It creates it. That
- is the whole point of the discussion which has been taking place here.
- Money is and has been introduced to the money system mainly by the
- creation of loans. It is only puzzling if you had always believed
- money was really worth something in itself, or was backed by some
- physical quality or quantity. The system rides on confidence in
- itself.
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