• iopq@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Circulation doesn’t matter. Let me give you adb example.

    Let’s say my mom sells her house. The buyer takes out a loan from the bank. My mom gets $300,000 in cash to her bank account, the buyer loses 20% down payment so he’s down $60,000. The bank reserves 10% which is $24,000

    Suddenly the economy just got a boost of $300,000 - $60,000 - $24,000 = $216,000

    When my mom spends that money, it goes to the bank accounts of businesses so it just stays as numbers. Nobody needs to take any cash out, but everyone gets richer

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      3 hours ago

      Am no expert but didn’t the money come from the banks virtual reserves? In which case the total money in the economy hasn’t changed.

      Before the house purchase it would have been in other investments, no?