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He states that banks create new money through lending against deposits, which is the basis for explaining debt and inflation dynamics in this episode.
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Money creation
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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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Jiang says the Federal Reserve is not truly a government body but a committee of private-bank interests that creates money, while the government finances spending by issuing Treasury bonds into that system.
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Jiang says money itself matters less than control over who prints and structures money, because the power to create money governs the social game.
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Jiang says modern banks create money through double-entry bookkeeping when they issue loans rather than merely recycling existing deposits.
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"Right. So the United States has a weird, really weird system where it's not, it's not the government that issues currency. It's not the..."
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"And the way the, and the way the government works is in order to finance government expenditures, it. It borrows from the federal reserve..."
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"an illusion so the example is let's just say your depositor and you put a million dollars into a bank okay and the way..."
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"do you guys know what you don't want to know why the bank has two million dollars this is the case okay i'll tell..."
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"this paper can be redeemed for gold at my bank it doesn't make sense all right and then you have to keep track of..."
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"People understand... People think that money is everything. But, like, what matters is who prints the money, who creates the money, who controls the..."
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"money has value another thing that people don't appreciate is how money is created so uh you know Richard Werner he talks a lot..."
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"creating out of thin air when it loans you that money it's actually increasing its assets so if you just look at chinese banks..."
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"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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