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Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles - The Ludwig von Mises ...

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206 <strong>Money</strong>, <strong>Bank</strong> <strong>Credit</strong>, <strong>and</strong> <strong>Economic</strong> <strong>Cycles</strong><strong>Bank</strong> A(23) Debit <strong>Credit</strong>1,000,000 Cash Dem<strong>and</strong> deposits 1,000,000(checking accounts)1,097,560 Loans granted Dem<strong>and</strong> deposits 1,097,560(newly-created deposits)<strong>The</strong>se entries correspond to an original deposit of1,000,000 m.u. <strong>and</strong> an isolated bank’s ex nihilo creation of loans<strong>and</strong> deposits for the sum of 1,097,560 m.u. <strong>The</strong> value of k (0.2)indicates that, on average, borrowers only withdraw 80 percentof the funds they are lent. When this withdrawal is made(<strong>and</strong> even if a greater amount is withdrawn, when some of thefinal recipients of the money are also customers of the originalbank <strong>and</strong> deposit their money there), the following entry isrecorded: 2424 Former continental accounting methods are more complex. However,it is possible to arrive at balance sheet (25) by supposing that the statementk=0.2, instead of referring to the percentage of loan funds unused(which, as we know, this system does not reflect), represents the proportionof the public which does business regularly with the bank <strong>and</strong>therefore will deposit funds back into it. In this case, the entries wouldappear as follows:<strong>Bank</strong> A(26) Debit <strong>Credit</strong>1,000,000 Cash Dem<strong>and</strong> deposits 1,000,000Upon loaning 900,000 m.u., the bank would make the following entry:<strong>Bank</strong> ADebit<strong>Credit</strong>900,000 Loans Cash 900,000

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