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Fractional Reserve Banking

Fractional Reserve Banking

There is an old erroneous view of fractional reserve banking. “Naturally, all fractionally reserved banks are de facto insolvent at all times…” The Acting Man blog is usually very good, but it published an article by Pater Tenebrarum containing this comment (http://www.acting-man.com/?p=6781).  If there is a weakness in Austrian School thinking surely fractional reserve banking […]