I have an economics teacher that made this claim in class yesterday. I wanted to know other people’s thoughts about it.

  • curious_dolphin@slrpnk.net
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    5 days ago

    Fractional reserve banking does not mean the debt does not exist. The debt very much exists. Nobody takes out a loan and just sits on it. As soon as the loan is created, goods and services are traded. At the end of the day, each party to downstream transactions can go to the bank and withdraw the balance of their account in cash. The fractional reserve system only works as long as not everyone does this at once.

    • theonlytruescotsman
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      4 days ago

      Except it’s new money that’s made up, and in the case of student loans, most of that money isn’t traded for goods and services, instead more than 3/4s of the money created goes back to the lender.

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        4 days ago

        Looks like we are not going to agree on this, which is okay—I enjoyed the discussion nonetheless. Have a nice day.