Ansel Lindner’s Credit Cycle: “Something changes in the market, perhaps a new invention or new discovery, creating profitable business opportunities. That raises demand for loans and willingness by lenders to make those loans. They create the credit and systematically use it for the most profitable uses first. The economy booms, profitability is high, businesses are confident, banks can charge more for loans because demand is high, interest rates rise. As time goes on and more credit is extended, it goes to less and less profitable use cases dragging down the average profitability in the economy. This causes a drag on demand for new loans, fewer loans are given to more creditworthy borrowers with safer investments, funneling new money into "financial assets", reducing demand for loans and interest rates fall.”

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Credit has never been a bad thing when used responsibly. Credit and lending rates, under a hard money system like gold and silver, were decided by the lending market.

If people never borrowed, lenders can drop rates to encourage borrowing. If people borrowed too much, and lenders couldn't keep enough operating capital on hand, they raised rates to slow down the demand.

A balance of free market economics.

The problem started with debasing the money, then eventually led to printing currency, and has now arrived at creating numbers on a screen.