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What's it missing? You're apparently a delicate genius so enlighten us all please.

• throw0101a 5y ago
  It's missing the fact that central banks don't create money: > A major reason for the increases is that central bankers around the world — including those at the Federal Reserve — sought to compensate for Covid-19 lockdowns with dramatic monetary inflation. As a result, nearly $4 trillion in newly printed dollars, euros, and yen found their way from central banks into the coffers of global financial institutions. Central banks create reserves, which are only good in the inter-bank system, and never enter general circulation. Money is created by private banks via credit. See Roche: * https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1905625 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1905625 And no, reserves don't determine credit creation. The 'money multiplier' hasn't been true for several decades: * https://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/page1-econ/2021/09/17/teaching-the-linkage-between-banks-and-the-fed-r-i-p-money-multiplier https://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/page1-econ/2021...?