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	Fractional Reserve Banking
		Banking is a particularly arcane part of the economic system; one of the problems is that the word "bank" covers many different activities, with very different implications.
		But banks operate very differently, at least since the days of such deposit banks as the Banks of Amsterdam and Hamburg in the seventeenth century, which indeed acted as warehouses and backed all of their receipts fully by the assets deposited, e.g., gold and silver.
		Central Banking began with the Bank of England in the 1690s, spread to the rest of the Western world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and finally was imposed upon the United States by banking cartelists via the Federal Reserve System of 1913.
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	Fractional-reserve banking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In economics, particularly in financial economics, fractional-reserve banking is the near-universal practice of banks of retaining only a fraction of their deposits and notes as reserves to satisfy demands for withdrawals, investing the remainder at interest to obtain income that can be used to pay interest to depositors and provide profits for the banks' owners.
		The key financial ratio used to analyse fractional-reserve banks is the reserve ratio, which is the ratio of reserves to demand deposits and notes.
		The 'reserve ratio' should not be confused with the 'capital ratio', which is the ratio of the bank's capital to its assets.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fractional-reserve_banking (1977 words)

	EconEdLink \| EconomicsMinute \| It's a Not So Wonderful Life
		Reserves are held in the bank's vault or in an account at a Federal Reserve Bank.
		As we mentioned previously, banks are subject to a reserve requirement mandated by the Fed. In the earlier example, we assumed that banks were required to keep 10 percent of their checking deposits in reserve.
		Reserve requirements are infrequently changed by the Fed, primarily because of the impact that changes in reserve requirements would have on banks and their costs of doing business.
	www.econedlink.org /lessons/index.cfm?lesson=EM698&page=teacher (2366 words)

	Money supply - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Of the money in a bank deposit, depending on reserve requirements, either the whole sum or some fraction of it can immediately be lent out.
		The operative notion of easy money is that the Fed creates new bank reserves (also known as "federal funds", trades in the "money market"), which let the banks lend out more money.
		One of the principal jobs of central banks (such as the US Federal Reserve, the Bank of England and the European Central Bank) is to keep money supply growth in line with real GDP growth.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Money_supply (1968 words)

	Shut-Down of Banking System
		Therefore the system relies on universal public and depositor confidence and faith they will have access to their savings, as it would take a mere 5% (or less) to deplete all reserves.
		There comes a time when propagation of bugs in the system become so pervasive that the flow of money/funds/data no longer be processed, as the time expended to hand check for corrupted data exceeds the capacity and ability to do so in a manual fashion.
		Since this is an international system, the failure of off-shore financial institutions threatens the functioning of domestic banks.
	www.angelfire.com /or/truthfinder/banking.html (1124 words)

	SparkNotes: Banking: Central Banking System
		We learned in the section on the purpose of banks that banks make deposits, withdrawals, and loans from banks' banks that are usually branches of the Fed. When a bank makes many loans, its reserves get d epleted to near the absolute required minimum.
		The next part of the US banking system is the Fed. The Fed buys and se lls government bonds, changes the federal funds interest rate, and changes the reserve requirements.
		The interdependent hierarchy that is established through the central banking system in the US allo ws the money supply and inflation to be carefully controlled, as well as the fiat money to maintain value over time.
	www.sparknotes.com /economics/macro/banking/section2.rhtml (1140 words)

	Fractional Reserve Banking
		A bank may hold its reserves in any combination of vault cash and deposits at the Fed. As profit-seeking enterprises, banks try to keep their reserves close to the required minimum, since they earn no interest.
		Federal Reserve notes are prized as a store of value and used as a medium of exchange in those countries where the local currency is not trusted.
		Banks must still attend to their reserve ratios, and hold adequate clearing balances at the Fed. That creates an active money market in Fed funds whose price the Fed can control through its open market operations.
	wfhummel.cnchost.com /bankreserves.html (862 words)

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		The fractional reserve banking system means that banks have only as fraction of the funds/money supply on hand as reserves.
		However, a fractional reserve banking system is subject to runs on banks and bank panics, therefore, this is a highly regulated industry, including federal deposit insurance.
		When a check is drawn against one bank and deposited in another, collection of the check will __________ both the reserves and the checkable deposits of the bank on which the check was drawn.
	www.ualr.edu /~mhwitkowski/MACOUT14S.doc (836 words)

	Fractional Reserve Banking as Economic Parasitism: A Scientific,Mathemat
		Fractional Reserve Banking as Economic Parasitism: A Scientific,Mathematical and Historical Expose, Critique, and Manifesto
		I recently worked about 6 weeks on a complicated and comprehensive paper entitled Fractional Reserve Banking as Economic Parasitism: A Scientific, Mathematical and Historical Expose, Critique, and Manifesto download it in PDF from the economics papers archive: http://econwpa.wustl.edu/eprints/mac/papers/0203/0203005.abs would be interested in any feedback.
		From the hypotheses a major (admittedly radical) conclusion is that the modern international ``fractional reserve banking system'' is actually equivalent to ``legalized economic parasitism by private bankers.'' This is the case because, contrary to conventional wisdom, the proceeds of inflation are not actually spendable by the state.
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	Fractional Reserve Banking Prevents Gold Standard (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Fractional Reserve Banking is nothing more than the ability to artificially inflate the money supply; commercial banks do so by printing and lending money, which a bank does not have in safe storage.
		Banks under the current system make money by literally creating money out of thin air through the magic of the printing press; currently deposits rather than bank notes are what is in vogue.
		Banking should be treated as any other segment of the economy in a capitalist system, and face competition.
	www.halifaxlive.com /fractional_reserve_08302004_0390.php (1619 words)

	A Privatised Money Supply: Modern Banking and the Fractional Reserve System
		I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a monied aristocracy that has set the Government at defiance. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
		Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin...
		But for all existing bank credit to be paid without anyone defaulting on their loans, the economy must expand by 2.9 percent ($28 billion of interest divided by the GDP, $953 billion).
	www.basicincome.com /basic_banks.htm (578 words)

	Fractional Reserve Banking (Site not responding. Last check: )
		But banks operate very differently, at least since the days of such deposit banks as the Banks of Amsterdam and Hamburg in the seventeenth century, which indeed acted as warehouses and backed all of their receipts fully by the assets deposited, e.g., gold and silver.
		Banks keep checking deposits at the Fed and these deposits constitute their reserves, on which they can and do pyramid ten times the amount in checkbook money.
		Thus, the Federal Reserve and other central banking systems act as giant government creators and enforcers of a banking cartel; the Fed bails out banks in trouble, and it centralizes and coordinates the banking system so that all the banks, whether the Chase Manhattan, or the Rothbard or Rockwell banks, can inflate together.
	www.libertyhaven.com /regulationandpropertyrights/bankingmoneyorfinance/fractional.html (2123 words)

	Governments And The Central Banking System (Site not responding. Last check: )
		But, once the bank is "loaned up," that is to say, once it has already loaned $9 for every $1 it holds in reserve, it must stop and wait for some of the old loans to be paid back before it can issue new ones.
		This bank is as Federal as a wolf is a sheep.
		As I outlined, this "marriage" between government and the central banking system, seems unbreakable - a water-tight union between two "partners" - and unlike other unions where divorce is a way out, is most unlikely to ever be torn asunder.
	www.rense.com /general54/governmentsandthe.htm (1651 words)

	SavingtheSystem
		The structure and terminology of our current system only make sense in their original context, where, for all the many problems associated with fractional reserve banking, there was at least something real at the heart of it.
		And the dealers (or their banks, as the case may be) have an economic incentive to put reserves so injected to work, because reserves don’t pay interest, and thus “excess reserves”, or reserves over the minimum required, are undesirable.
		Because central banks conventionally conduct monetary policy by manipulating the short-term nominal interest rate, some observers have concluded that when that key rate stands at or near zero, the central bank has "run out of ammunition"--that is, it no longer has the power to expand aggregate demand and hence economic activity.
	www.goldensextant.com /SavingtheSystem.html (10673 words)

	GoldMoney
		The real problem is not a central bank system per se as Russell implies, but with fractional reserve banking at any level, especially fictional reserve pure fiat currency imposed by a crooked government to benefit the banksters who control it.
		Theoretically at least, a central bank could function without harming the nation if it were restricted to using gold and silver coin (and deposit receipts) as the Constitution requires, and was not permitted to make loans, a power not granted by the Constitution.
		The reason central banking is so damaging is due to its power to monopolize the exploitation of fractional reserve currency and to force it on everyone under color of law.
	www.goldmoney.com /en/commentary/2003-08-11.html (1198 words)

	Bank Run, 1999
		The Fractional Reserve banking system, which lends out more than 95% of its stated deposits and requires public confidence to survive, is seriously threatened with collapse by y2k from several simultaneous causes.
		This wire system requires the telecommunication system to be functional, which will also be suffering from its own y2k problems and systems failures in 2000.
		Yet at present, there are zero compliant money-center banks world-wide, and only a few publicly announced financial institutions that have made it....Citibank (now Citigroup, and spending nearly a billion dollars on its y2k repairs) said last year that it hoped to be the first.
	www.angelfire.com /or/truthfinder/bankrun.html (1664 words)

	Kidogo's World: Restoring the Dollar II
		Clearly, the Federal Reserve was established to remove the Constitution as the controlling agency in national monetary policy, and to guarantee that certain special interest groups be monopolistically represented in determination of that policy for the special benefit of those groups and at everybody else's expense.
		The fractional reserve banking system is nothing but a conspiracy between the public officials and the bankers to loot the American people.
		It is a national system regulating all; and it was an attempt, essentially domestically, in 1913, and then internationally under the Bretton Woods agreement in 1944, to expand that kind of fractional reserve system, first throughout the United States and then throughout the world.
	www.sonnet.com /usr/kidogo/dollar2.html (2708 words)

	FRACTIONAL RESERVE BANKING SYSTEM
		Fractional Reserve Banking System: A system in which depository institutions hold reserves that are less than the amount of total deposits.
		Required Reserve Ratio: The percentage of total reserves that the Fed requires depository institutions to hold in the form of legal reserves.
		Currency in circulation is outside the banking system and cannot be held by banks as reserves from which to make loans.
	global.cscc.edu /econ/240/chapter15notes.htm (614 words)

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		Vieira's purpose is to present an analysis of the Federal Reserve System, its fiat paper currency, and "fractional-reserve" banking that infrequently, if ever, appears in the popular press, in the media, in the discourse of legislators or political candidates, or (worse yet) in the nation's schools.
		The condition "in a free-market system" is crucial, because the self-limiting aspect of fiduciary money historically has failed in an economic regime in which the government or powerful private interests license the issuers of fiduciary monies to suspend or repudiate entirely their promises to redeem those monies on demand in coin.
		The FRS was the response of bankers and their political cronies to decades of failures in the fractional-reserve banking system at the local and regional levels throughout the United States.
	home.hiwaay.net /~becraft/VieiraMono4.htm (4762 words)

	Fractional reserve banking system (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Depositors' money is used to perform loans by the bank but depending on the jurisdiction (country) a certain percentage of the deposited funds should be held by the financial institution to satisfy the withdrawal demands.
		It appears that reserve requirements in different countries ranges between 1% to 10%, but there are reports of much lower reserves actually held by the banks.
		What is certainly the case is that the banks charge interest on the created money and that alone adds to the money supply and thus has an inflationary effect.
	brandt.kurowski.net /projects/lsa/wiki/view.cgi?doc=2 (260 words)

	Speculative-Investor.com
		The total value of deposits at a bank, and therefore the total amount of currency that can be created by a bank, is limited to a multiple of the bank's reserves.
		For example if the reserve requirement is 10% (a typical value), then for every $100 of deposits at a bank the bank must have at least $10 of reserves (reserves being currency notes).
		The system is disliked by governments because it restricts their ability to arbitrarily increase their indebtedness and expand the supply of currency.
	www.speculative-investor.com /new/gloss.html (2393 words)

	Fractional Reserve Banking - Fractional Reserve Banking and Fed Counterfeiting
		Another crucial part of this process was the federal cartelization of the nation's banks through the creation of the Federal Reserve System in 1913.
		If, therefore, I wish to redeem $1,000 in cash from my checking bank, the bank has to go to the Federal Reserve, and draw down its own checking account with the Fed, "buying" $1,000 of Federal Reserve Notes (the cash in the United States today) from the Fed.
		The banking system is allowed to keep reserves amounting to 10 percent of its deposits, which means that the "money multiplier" — the amount of deposits the banks can expand on top of reserves — is 10.
	www.fdrs.org /fractional_reserve_banking.html (2413 words)

	Resources - Banking Secrets That Banks Don't Want Published!
		Banking Basics From the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
		Federal Reserve Monetary Reform is Needed NOW for You to Achieve Prosperity, Regain Freedom and Quality of Life.
		The Instigators of the Federal Reserve Banks are Swindling You of Your Life, Liberty and Property.
	www.fdrs.org /resources.html (11151 words)

	Financial Sense University ~ Blitzkreig Series - Essay 5: Ponzi & Electricity 06/11/2003 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		By controlling the price of gold, the American central bank hides the destruction of the monetary system as the price of gold is capped, hiding the inflation of the currency from an unknowing public, and unknowing investors.
		If a banking derivative crises did erupt, in light of the decline of the US dollar in world currency markets, and the market bubble in the stock and bond markets, if foreign capital moves back to its source of origin, we expect every micro realty market in America to be impacted, regardless of Mr.
		With the derivative banking crisis on the horizon, it is not a pretty joke.
	www.financialsense.com /fsu/editorials/2003/0611.htm (2209 words)

	Fractional Reserve Banking as Economic Parasitism: A Scientific, Mathematical & Historical Expose, Critique, and ...
		Fractional Reserve Banking as Economic Parasitism: A Scientific, Mathematical & Historical Expose, Critique, and Manifesto
		This paper looks at the history of money and its modern form from a scientific and mathematical point of view.
		If you experience problems downloading a file, check if you have the proper application to view it first.
	ideas.repec.org /p/wpa/wuwpma/0203005.html (820 words)

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