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3 Comments on Fractional Reserve Banking
There is no longer any such thing as money, there is only debt. Read the bills in your wallet. They are simply promises to pay from an entity unwilling, or unable to actually provide you that which is Constitutionally money.
One other point, if banks were only leveraged to the legal limit you mention, we would not have a problem. The issue is that the biggest banks, and more specifically Bank Holding Companies such as Goldman Sachs are leveraged at closer to 30 to 1. Factor in the bogus Mark to Fantasy rules they use for evaluating real estate assets, and that figure could be closer to 50 to 1. All of this is supposed to be offset by Credit Default Swaps (CDS), but since they are not exchange regulated nobody knows how many of these are empty promises.
Ron, I'm well aware of all that you have said and thank you for providng the additional info for the readers.
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