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by greenyoda 1201 days ago
> lower interest rates on accounts...

These days, banks need to be competitive with Treasury rates to get large deposits from informed investors. Anyone with a brokerage account can get a 5% interest rate today on short-term Treasury securities (risk-free if held to maturity, and exempt from state/local income tax).

So if banks start lowering rates on deposits, they may have a shortage of money for lending.

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If they don’t have required reserves they don’t need any deposits.