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Comment by namdnay

> When you have literally a license to create money out of thin air

This is a common but slightly misleading interpretation of fractional reserve banking.

If I lend you 100 bucks and you lend those 100 bucks to someone else, you’ve “created 100 bucks” in a monetary sense. But it’s not coming from thin air, from an accounting perspective it’s just a debt moving from one person to another

parent namdnay 3 years ago

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