>>1843 >>1844 I'm not conflating anything. Fractional reserve banking does not involve lending out a fraction of the bank's assets, because the money being loaned out does not, strictly speaking, belong to the bank. Fractional reserve banks lend out a portion of its client's demand deposit accounts as loans, which is an undeniable breach of the terms of contract. The contents of of demand deposit accounts are not the bank's property, they are property of the clients who pay the bank to to store their property. Loaning out demand deposits is no different from a storages locker facility renting out the valuables you store there, with the hopes it will all be back by the time you return.
A 100% reserve bank is perfectly able to lend out the contents of
savings accounts, secured by a CD. Because that money is the bank's property, on loan to the bank for a specific period of time and returned with interest, with the understanding that the client is not guaranteed access to that money within the interim. And no, it's not a trivial matter to separate fractional reserve banking from inflationary fiat and centralized banking. Were it not for inflationary policy being enforced top-down across all banks simultaneously, fractional reserve banking would not be possible. Any one bank attempting to inflate the number of receipts in circulation would immediately be pounced on by competing banks who will cash in on its inflated supply of notes, forcing bankruptcy.
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