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The bank lends an amount at 7%. The individual immediately pays the full amount into someone else's bank account. If the bank needs cash (which it probably doesn't on a day to day basis because most of its depositors leave money where it is) it can borrow that amount from the other bank at 5.5% and profit from the margin. So the amounts are eventually consistent.

That's the basic logic: modern banking adds in a central bank that guarantees that it will lend enough to solvent banks at 5.5% to meet their customers' withdrawal requirements even if everyone pulls money out, banks treating each others' credit as equivalent in value to cash because they can always convert it, and a bunch of rules about lending needing to be banked with bank capital and other weighted assets to keep lending growth from being silly.



yes exactly. whereas the person above was arguing that they can just lend out money that wasn't deposited, which is pure fiction




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