Jiang argues that even under fractional reserves, banks expand money beyond deposited cash; the important point is that bank accounting creates money in practice.
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Money Creation
Jiang argues that even under fractional reserves, banks expand money beyond deposited cash; the important point is that bank accounting creates money in practice.
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He cites Chinese banks' infrastructure lending over the prior twenty years as evidence that banks create money out of nothing to finance real projects.
The economics-class answer to banking is fractional reserve logic, but Jiang says the real system creates a larger balance sheet by treating the loan and deposit as coexisting claims.
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"You cannot loan all the money that you have. They will have a limit like 25%. I don't know. Okay. Maybe 10%. So you..."
"Okay. Really good point. Okay. Yes. Okay. So that's really good. So in economics, you learn about the idea of the fractional reserve system...."
"Because over the past 20 years, Chinese banks, like the Bank of China, the Bank of Industry and Commerce, the Agricultural Bank of China,..."
"Okay. Really good point. Okay. Oh, yes. Okay. So that's really good. So in economics, you learn about the idea of the fractional reserve..."
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