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Re:Trust in Government Is Collapsing Around the World by barrkel on Monday July 04, 2016 @11:11AM (#12031198)
Investments are savings; just riskier.

(Did you think that your savings account at the bank is just held as treasuries? The bank invests it.)

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Re:Trust in Government Is Collapsing Around the World by soVeryTired on Monday July 04, 2016 @11:36AM (#12031335)
>Did you think that your savings account at the bank is just held as treasuries? The bank invests it.

It's actually a bit more complicated than that:

http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/Documents/quarte...

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