We are beating a dead horse.
If we could just let market decide the interests and not money printer, the economy would stop inflate itself. The only money banks could lend would be those that the bank really owns.
while this is sound in theory, the past has shown that if you do it this way, there would be possible run on banks, as well as credit crunches that hurt more than help.
If money is tight, because lots of lenders fear lending out (who would lend money out that they can't guarentee a return of?), then people who really need to borrow would pay dearly for it (and may be not be able to afford to pay). This would hurt, and probably hurt a lot more than the current "inflationary" printing. You just don't see it because the current system is actually good enough, and all you can see are the minor flaws.
These are not minor flaws. We are creating money from nothing which means pereptual inflation which means your savings are no longer safe. It's much more sound to just borrow money, which makes you dependent on the mercy of state regulations.
This is like saying we dodged withdrawals by taking more of the drug.
You (and many others) have some money, but you don't need it now.
The bank lends it out and puts it to work. They keep enough to pay people back, assuming there isn't a bank run.
If you banned fractional banking, people would find a new way to invent it.
But government runs the same scam because they also don't have enough money to lend so they borrow money from another bank, namely FED. This bank also doesn't have the money so they start up the printers and act like government owns them.
The government debt is so high that if you sum up all the debt government owes and add what government promised (social security etc.) you will find out it pays so much in interest that it's basically bankrupt.
Somehow we ended in system where no one has money, everyone owes each other and we all act like it's okay.
We all know this will implode and the longer we wait the worse it will be.
what does that mean?