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There is no cycle for bank B there.

It went from

  Bank B $1m deposit
  [$100k required reserves + $900k excess reserves] 
to

  Bank B $1m deposit with 900k loan (90%)
  [$100k required reserves + zero excess reserves]
and it's still there at the end. It doesn't have excess reserves, it cannot make new loans if it cannot get more money.

To be clear, my original comment was: "The money created doesn’t necessarily go back to the bank. When you take a loan you use the money for something, not to keep it in an account at that bank. It will typically end in another bank."

The bank =/= A bank

One bank =/= The banking system

[Of course when another bank gets more reserves it increases their capacity to extend new loans. The question was whether a bank with $1m in deposits can lend $9m, not whether the whole banking system could.]



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