[spiralx]

> If a bank has insufficient deposits, it can't lend any more money.

That's not actually true, banks effectively create money when making a loan, and the only constraints on this are the interest rate set by the central bank, which affects both demand for credit and the cost of providing it, and liquidity requirements set by legislation.

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...

[sdhgaiojfsa]

The "liquidity requirements" you refer to are the fraction in "fractional-reserve." If I deposit $1, and then the bank's capital requirements are 75%, and they lend out $0.75, the total amount of money is now $1.75. This is what people are referring to when they say banks create money.

[spiralx]

Banks "create" money by making loans, but those loans aren't made from other deposits. A bank with a 10% requirement that has $100,000 in reserves can loan $1,000,000 to somebody even though they don't have that much deposited there.