Another link - an interesting twelve minute video interview asking 'Who Allocates Our Money' Quote Prof R Werner is an economist and professor at the University of Southampton. He is noted as a monetary and development economist. Richard is Director of the Centre for Banking, Finance and Sustainable Development at the University of Southampton; and is also a member of the Southampton Management School’s Executive Board. Having studied monetary economics and banking in Japan he has held numerous positions in Japan’s finance sector institutions as well as working as chief economist at Jardine Fleming Securities (Asia) Ltd. Prof Werner - “I’ve recently conducted a poll of almost thousand people, randomly selected. And one of the questions I asked was “Who do you think creates and allocates the majority of money supply?” And 85% of respondents answered: “it’s the government or central bank, isn’t it?”. “ Second question I asked was: “Would you agree to a system whereby the majority of the money supply is created and allocated by profit-oriented enterprises?” And of course, the majority answered “No, they wouldn’t agree.”'" www.positivemoney.org.uk/2012/05 ... tes-money/

Another link - an interesting twelve minute video interview asking 'Who Allocates Our Money' Quote Prof R Werner is an economist and professor at the University of Southampton. He is noted as a monetary and development economist. Richard is Director of the Centre for Banking, Finance and Sustainable Development at the University of Southampton; and is also a member of the Southampton Management School’s Executive Board. Having studied monetary economics and banking in Japan he has held numerous positions in Japan’s finance sector institutions as well as working as chief economist at Jardine Fleming Securities (Asia) Ltd. Prof Werner - “I’ve recently conducted a poll of almost thousand people, randomly selected. And one of the questions I asked was “Who do you think creates and allocates the majority of money supply?” And 85% of respondents answered: “it’s the government or central bank, isn’t it?”. “ Second question I asked was: “Would you agree to a system whereby the majority of the money supply is created and allocated by profit-oriented enterprises?” And of course, the majority answered “No, they wouldn’t agree.”'" www.positivemoney.org.uk/2012/05 ... tes-money/

Quote ="LeighGionaire"snip'" Firstly there is no way I'm watching an hour long video about this crap, I have FAR better things to do - I've got a busy day watching paint dry and waiting for grass to grow. Do you even bother to read the links that you post? because this one: (www.positivemoney.org.uk/2012/07 ... went-bust/), seems to back up my point exactly. Yes a bank could deposit £1,000,000 in my account right now and it would cost them nothing, BUT as soon as I tried to actually spend it (say on a house) they would have to transfer £1,000,000 of 'central bank money' to the bank of whoever I bought the house from. So yes, in theory they can create money willy nilly out of thin air and deposit as much money into my account (and everyone else's accounts) as they like, but if they want to stay solvent they can only deposit enough money in people's accounts that they can afford to back up with 'central bank money' which they are not able to create. You claim Mervyn King backs up your point, but can you please explain in what way Mervyn King's statement is incompatible with the explanation I've given above.

Quote ="LeighGionaire"snip'" Firstly there is no way I'm watching an hour long video about this crap, I have FAR better things to do - I've got a busy day watching paint dry and waiting for grass to grow. Do you even bother to read the links that you post? because this one: (www.positivemoney.org.uk/2012/07 ... went-bust/), seems to back up my point exactly. Yes a bank could deposit £1,000,000 in my account right now and it would cost them nothing, BUT as soon as I tried to actually spend it (say on a house) they would have to transfer £1,000,000 of 'central bank money' to the bank of whoever I bought the house from. So yes, in theory they can create money willy nilly out of thin air and deposit as much money into my account (and everyone else's accounts) as they like, but if they want to stay solvent they can only deposit enough money in people's accounts that they can afford to back up with 'central bank money' which they are not able to create. You claim Mervyn King backs up your point, but can you please explain in what way Mervyn King's statement is incompatible with the explanation I've given above.

Here's another one of those nutters who thinks banks craete money - Economist Steve Keen talking on Hardtalk. “We have two sources of money in the economy: (1.) The banks can create money by extending loans and (2.) The government create money by running a deficit. We had back in the early sixties the ratio of government created money to the overall money supply of about 15%. It’s fallen so far that we’ve got the entirely debt-based system.” Don't worry it's only three minutes long and he states the fact right at the beginning of the clip. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/h ... m?mid=5381 I take it he's talking out of his backside?

Here's another one of those nutters who thinks banks craete money - Economist Steve Keen talking on Hardtalk. “We have two sources of money in the economy: (1.) The banks can create money by extending loans and (2.) The government create money by running a deficit. We had back in the early sixties the ratio of government created money to the overall money supply of about 15%. It’s fallen so far that we’ve got the entirely debt-based system.” Don't worry it's only three minutes long and he states the fact right at the beginning of the clip. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/h ... m?mid=5381 I take it he's talking out of his backside?

ok I'll sum up the situation for you, see if you can work out why we disagree:
(please excuse my paraphrasing)

You claim: banks create money - they willy nilly create as much as they like whenever they like, it is a money out of nothing scam.

Sally Cinnamon claims: banks create money - they create money by lending out more than is deposited, this is fine as long as everyone doesn't try to withdraw their money at once.

Economist 1 says: banks create money.
Economist 2 says: banks create money.

Therefore you are correct, because the economists have backed up your argument?

Can you not see how ridiculous this is?

Banks can create money (credit) out of nothing but they need a willing borrower to take out a loan for the money to be created. In theory it isn't money it's just 'credit', but the reality is these bank credits are used as legal tender so it is real money created with a debt attached (plus the interest needed to repay the loan in full). IMO Private Banks inflating the money supply by 100% in the past 8 years is legalised counterfeiting - have you seen any of this newly created money in your wage packet?



I agree with the first part but the flaw in the system IMO is that there is NEVER enough Money/Credit in the system to pay back all the loans because the extra money needed to pay the interest isn't created at the same time as the loan. Thats why every government, almost all multinational corporations and a vast chunk of the general population are drowning in debt.

Also when you pay back a loan the bank destroys the money, keeping the interest. To keep the system functioning somebody somewhere has to be taking on ever increasing debt, be it government spending, student loans, credit cards, inflated mortgages etc. Once it dawns on people that this mountain of debt is unpayable the system starts to collapse.

If we try the reverse and stop taking on debt (austerity) money dissapears out of the system and people find it harder to pay their existing loans, recession kicks in and another domino effect takes place, this time in reverse.

This is why both Labour and Lib/Con policy are wrong IMO - until somebody in power addresses the flaws inherent in debt based money we are going to be in this economic quagmire indefinately.

NOTE - I suppose if they gave every person in China a credit card and told them to start spending we could have a global economic debt based boom but it would only be 'kicking the can down the road'.