Re:Cryptocurrency in the 2020s
by vinniejames on Saturday January 04, 2020 @11:15AM
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You missed the part where the business gives the money for those goods and services back to the bank plus interest and the fact that the bank already had the money to give, nothing was created
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The bank doesn't usually "have the money to give" when it makes a loan.
Let's say Bank A loans $1000 to a customer. It creates a $1000 bank deposit in that customer's account. On the balance sheet it looks like this:
Bank A:
(Asset) Loan to customer of $1000
(Liability) Bank deposit in account of customer $1000
Bank A created the $1000 at will out of thin air. This is how it happens most of the time.