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xiv<strong>Money</strong>, <strong>Bank</strong> <strong>Credit</strong>, <strong>and</strong> <strong>Economic</strong> <strong>Cycles</strong><strong>The</strong> Position of the Currency-School <strong>The</strong>oristswho Defended a Free-<strong>Bank</strong>ing System . . . . . . . . .6393 <strong>The</strong> “<strong>The</strong>orem of the Impossibility of Socialism”<strong>and</strong> its Application to the Central <strong>Bank</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . .647<strong>The</strong> <strong>The</strong>ory of the Impossibility ofCoordinating Society Based on InstitutionalCoercion or the Violation of TraditionalLegal Principles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .650<strong>The</strong> Application of the <strong>The</strong>orem of theImpossibility of Socialism to the Central<strong>Bank</strong> <strong>and</strong> the Fractional-Reserve <strong>Bank</strong>ingSystem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .651(a) A System Based on a Central <strong>Bank</strong>Which Controls <strong>and</strong> Oversees aNetwork of Private <strong>Bank</strong>s thatOperate with a Fractional Reserve . . . . . . . . .654(b) A <strong>Bank</strong>ing System which Operates witha 100-Percent Reserve Ratio <strong>and</strong> isControlled by a Central <strong>Bank</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . .661(c) A Fractional-Reserve Free-<strong>Bank</strong>ingSystem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .664Conclusion: <strong>The</strong> Failure of <strong>Bank</strong>ingLegislation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6714 A Critical Look at the Modern Fractional-ReserveFree-<strong>Bank</strong>ing School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .675<strong>The</strong> Erroneous Basis of the Analysis: <strong>The</strong>Dem<strong>and</strong> for Fiduciary Media, Regarded asan Exogenous Variable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .679<strong>The</strong> Possibility that a Fractional-ReserveFree-<strong>Bank</strong>ing System May UnilaterallyInitiate <strong>Credit</strong> Expansion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .685<strong>The</strong> <strong>The</strong>ory of “Monetary Equilibrium” inFree <strong>Bank</strong>ing Rests on an ExclusivelyMacroeconomic Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .688

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