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by colinmhayes 1311 days ago
What happens when the person withdraws the million dollars? The bank only has 100k.
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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.