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Creation of Money - Dr. Steve Keen, Economist

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The Ashley Madison Theory of Banking

Banks are what they call intermediaries. Between savers and borrowers. Borrowers don't have money or enough money in the bank account. The saver lengths of the borrower and the bank charges a fee for the lender. That's their model of what banks do. And so the idea is that there's a fixed supply of money that never changes? Not that doesn't change, but they have a different mechanisms for how a change is which are also wrong. One of their mechanisms is what they call the money multiplier. It explains the ineffective policy that Obama applied during the global financial crisis to rescue the economy.

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