“How banks create money [out of thin air]”

Best macro economics video you will watch today.

https://youtu.be/JG5c8nhR3LE

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TLDW, if you deposit $1,000 in a bank in your own account, the bank can loan most of it out. It varies between places but around 90%. So they loan $900 to someone.

So someone is walking on the street with $900 in their pockets. But the $1,000 is still yours. So, $900 were just magically created!

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