Quote from Anaconda:
I would bet that half the posters rarely, if ever, even heard the term fractional reserve banking.
Hey clown of ET, you discovered just now fractional reserve banking and you think this is monster of some kind? Listen clown, let us say you start the only bank in a remote island and you get a deposit of $100. Are you willing to lend just $100?
Deposits are paid on demand but loans are covered by agreements and debtor can also default. Fractional reserve banking serves many good purposes, one is diversification of risk by lending in excess of the deposits to several borrowers up to the allowed reserves. This keeps risk premium interest rate down and availability of cheaper money to consumer and businesses. Without fractional reserve system, not many would be willing to lend and we would be always in a recession and more importantly, the state would have to become the banker and select those to lend to, which in turn leads to corruption and inneficiencies, something you are seem to oppose because you fight Keynesians, but you do not understand CLOWN that elimination of fractional reserve system would lead to greater state involvement in business and eventual permanet recession and even a permanent liquidity trap.
You got it clown?
