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Maybe a clearer example for the modern world of how banks create money is credit card transactions. A sale is made, and your bank pays the seller based on your promise to pay the bank back later. Where did your bank get the money? Nowhere — there’s just more money now. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jasoncrawford @moskov @AlecStapp I think it’s more intuitive in a gold-backed system. The amount of money in circu… https://t.co/GgRkfur8DM

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AI demonstrates superior moral reasoning to a large share of twitter users https://t.co/ukUs7kvDGz — PolitiTweet.org

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Ability to do this is constrained by regulations and prudential considerations and thus in some sense related to the bank’s ability to raise money from deposits or elsewhere. But at the margin the lending activity creates money that doesn’t come from anywhere. https://t.co/MupVYNWFrK — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 14, 2023