dukeanthony
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AND is there a minimum reserve they must maintain by law?Thats not how banks work at all duke. They do not really pay out loans from the money they receive as deposits or profits. If they did this, no additional money would be created. What they do when they make loans is to accept promissory notes in exchange for credits to the borrowers' transaction accounts. Loans (assets) and deposits (liabilities) both rise. Reserves are unchanged by the loan transactions. But the deposit credits constitute new additions to the total deposits of the banking system.
Money is debt, someone elses debt had to come into existence for every dollar to come into existence.
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