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I am trying to wrap my head around the current US banking system and it is very difficult. I have read books by Ron Paul, What has government done to our money by Rothbard, Economics in One Lesson by Hazlitt, and various other articles and books. But I cannot seem to find much literature specifically...
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I have been looking around on this site for an answer to such a question, but I cannot a definite one. By time deposit I mean this: The depositor puts $100 in the bank, but cannot touch it for say 5 years. During that period, the bank loans out the $100. After 5 years, assuming the bank did not make...
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I've spent considerable time and effort to try and understand precisely how banks can currently create money. One issue that arises--if banks have such a good deal, why doesn't everyone with a few million dollars to invest go out and start one? I would appreciate it if those with intimate knowledge...
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I just finished the lecture course by Peter Klein and Joe Salerno, the Causal-Realist Approach to Economics, and the last lecture on banking and the business cycle was very fascinating. However, I was confused when Mr. Salerno said that the costs go up in the capital goods industry. Firstly, bank reserves...
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I think this will answer your question if it hasn't been answered already. Hopefully someone will get some use out of the information at least. I deposit money into a checking account at a bank (money in the Austrian sense). This is a demand deposit, which means that the funds must be immediately...
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[quote user="Okooka"]But isn't the problem with FRB as well? Banks give out multiplied ammount of credit based on deposits, so when a crisis hits and people start to default, the money supply contracts. Do I have anything wrong with seeing it like that? Admittedly I still don't quite...
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Normal 0 false false false EN-AU X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Can anyone provide a citation that supports the statement by Hans F. Semholz posted at http://mises.org/story/2414# that Friedman “calls for the issue of government money in the form of non-interest bearing obligations that...
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I was listening to Peter Schiff, and I heard him say that you don't have to give up a fractional reserve system as long as you tie it to gold. However, I thought you would want a 100% reserve currency because otherwise the money supply could still change based on the amount of credit in the system...
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Central banks perform a number of functions; basically they act as the government's own bank, holding the government checking accounts and collecting tax receipts, facilitating the issuance of bonds, etc. They are also frequently given regulatory functions, such as the enforcement of fractional reserves...
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[quote user="donmc"] Also, the main reason that the fed lowers rates is to increase borrowing and thus increase spending/consumption (to "stimulate the economy" in news fedspeak). [/quote] Note that this is a smokescreen put up by John Maynard Keynes in 1935, well after the Fed was...