Since is
easier for the explanation, we are going to suppose the monetary authority is
the Fed.
We all know
about the “occupy Wall Street” movement and that there is a lot of people who
complain against the current system (maybe you and me within this complaints)
In order to get you closer to the system, I’ll try to explain it to you!`
The system we are about to know is to be said
that is made by and for banks (do not think about your Sparkasse, rather
Deutsche, City, Goldman, JP Morgan…) i.e. what is theoretically good for the
system is actually good for it. Thus if we say depositing is better for the
system than keeping the money is because truly this is so. This system was
created for that and, like it or not, to yield benefits to the mightiest.
Think about it… if you were them, would you
have created the system to favor any other? Sincerely…
People in
the street think the money is created from melting gold bars under the Central
bank of their countries… Well, this is a bit harder.
The
monetary policy-maker is the Fed, whose task is setting the interest rate, and…
Are there bones in the ice-cream?.
Let’s
think: interest rate is the opp. cost of having cash instead of deposited in a
bank.
Let “i” the interest rate. Our bank yield 1% i and we would deposit $100. Our gain would be $1 if we actually had deposited that money. This $1 is our non-gain if we hadn’t deposited the money.Easier with a loan: we borrow money in the bank ($100) and we have to pay them back $101. If i would be lower, we would lose less money (less than $1) and we could spend better that money rather than giving it to the bank.
By
generalizing for the whole economy: when the interest rate decreases, the
economy as a whole is better off. ACHTUNG!! On the opposite side is the same! When
it increases, the economy is get worse.
Well then,
the Fed does not print money, get it in garbage bags and send them to the
corrupt politics houses. The way the CB makes money is through debt purchases (or
sales): Open Mkt Operations.
But,
extrapolating to the real life… why depositing money in the bank instead of
keeping it under the mattress? The
solution to this question is, as assumption, the banker is not going to run
away with our money, the money creation process.
First of
all, you must know your money does not stay at your Gringotts Security Chamber.
You don’t have a chamber where your savings are waiting for you.
Let suppose an economy where you have earned some backs thanks to dirty deals. You deposit $100 in the First National Bank, this Bank1 has to, mandatorily, keep an amount of your deposit (cash requirements, fixed by Fed).But almost the whole amount of your money is lent to other bank or to a borrower (e.g. a friend of you). We’ll imagine Bank1 will lend $90 to Bank2, the rest of your $100, $10, are kept to be able to withdraw for other customers.
With that $90, Bank2 makes the same and lend $81 to Bank3 (other $9 stay as reserves). Bank3 lends to Bank4, who borrows $72,9. The process keeps working until the money lent and borrowed reach to zero.
We have in
fact deposited $100 but the system money with the value of $1000, since Banks
are lending and borrowing more than $100… how is it plausible? This, dear
imaginary friends, is financial engineering It’s been already commented, the
system was created by and for the creators.
We have
generated 10 times the money we started with… Do you understand now how is it
possible suffering a financial crisis? Well, me neither. But at least you know
why is better saving your money in the bank rather than in a shock, mattress,
neckline…







