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Re: TURMEL: Latest LETS Banking Mathematics

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From: Malcolm O'Brien
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 00:00
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bc726@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (John Turmel) wrote:

>     The famous "reserve ratio" of a "fractional reserve system" sets 
>the limit on the amount of new money the private banks may create. It 

There are no longer any reserve requirements for Canadian banks.

>     The real power of banking is being able to refuse to turn on the 
>loans tap for one businessman and foreclose while turning it on for a 
>new loan to another businessman so he can buy out the first 
>businessman at auction. 

This was new revelation. Hadn't thought about it in those terms before.


Malcolm

The forgotten wisdom is this: The economy was made for man, 
not man for the economy.
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From: 76703.4243@compuserve.com (Malcolm O'Brien)
Subject: Re: TURMEL: Latest LETS Banking Mathematics
Date: 1996/11/17
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