how banks create money from nothing

[undergroundpanther]

Bankers know how to create money out of thin air. In fact, banks are money factories. Banks exist to make money. You might think that banks are in business to provide services such as banking accounts and loans to their customers. It's true that banks provide essential financial services. However, the reason that the banks provide such services is that banks need money to use as raw material to create more money. Where does this money come from? It comes from customer deposits. In other words, it comes from the money you and I deposit into the bank.

Notice very carefully, banks "create" money. It's not simply that banks "earn" profits when they provide bank services and loans. Banks actually "create" new money that did not exist before.

Here is an example of how banks create money. You deposit $100,000 into a one-year Certificate of Deposit at 5% interest. The bank now can use your money to create loans.
The Federal Reserve sets the reserve rate for the bank from 3-10%. A 3% reserve rate means that the bank must keep 3% of the $100,000 on reserve and can loan the remaining 97%. A 10% reserve rate means that the bank must keep 10% of the $100,000 on reserve and can loan the remaining 90%. For our example, let's assume that the reserve rate is 10%. This allows the bank to loan $90,000 of your $100,000 deposit.

So, the bank makes Loan #1 of $90,000 and keeps $10,000 on reserve. This is the critical point where the bank creates money. According to the bank's balance sheet, the $90,000 loan to the borrower is also a $90,000 asset for the bank. By its own brand of money magic, the bank has created $90,000 out of thin air.

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[formercia]

1. Central Banks, on the other hand, create money out of thin air.

They hold assets that another bank or government conjured out of thin air as well. It's what made today's bubble possible. If they had to back their 'money' with liquid assets such as Gold, we wouldn't be in this mess because there isn't enough Gold in the Galaxy to cover the bad paper floating out there.

[undergroundpanther]

2. yep!!

If you took all of anything that is precious, combined it all into a big pile, that isn't enough to cover it.

[FarCenter]

3. no money was created in the transaction you describe

The 100,000 of deposits is booked as a liability.

The 90,000 of loans is booked as an asset, as is the 10,000 reserve.

Everything is still equal on the balance sheet.

However, if the borrower bought some real estate from customer #2 of the bank, and #2 deposited the $90,000 back in the bank, then the bank could keep 9,000 of that on reserve and lend the 81,000 out.

Now we have 190,000 of deposits as liabilities and 19,000 reserves and 171,000 loans as assets.

So now some money has been created.