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by JumpCrisscross 1117 days ago
> fundamentally the quoted statement is wrong except in a very narrow niche

That niche being money and banking [1]. The comment you dismiss is correct: “Whenever a bank makes a loan, it simultaneously creates a matching deposit in the borrower’s bank account, thereby creating new money.”

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