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by colinmhayes 1314 days ago
The bank only has 100k though. They can’t loan out 1m because they don’t have 1m to give out.
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That's the whole point, they just create $1m and give it out
What happens when the person withdraws the million dollars? The bank only has 100k.
Are you talking about physical paper currency? That’s totally a different issue. What happens if the original depositor deposited via a bank wire and you want to loan out $100 dollars in paper money? You just get some paper money from the FED. Same thing here.