CultureCitizen
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Good question Ed.
A) Correct trade deficit,
B) Use helicopter money giving the money directly to the individuals , not to the banks ( this was actually suggested by Milton Friedman and is one of the few points in which I agree with him ). The single condition for this disbursement is that everyone having debt must use it first to cancell its debt.
C) Increase goverment spending in infrastructure ( this is the hardest part). The spending has to be directed in improving the efficiency of resource usage and in allowing corporations to work efficiently. The hard part: which parts of the infrastructure , in which location, aimed at which industries and towards which population groups.
Use helicopter money giving the money directly to the individuals , not to the banks
Are you under the impression that banks have been given helicopter money?
Indeed, banks create money, as stated by the bank of England:
"...and one of the key points in the article is that banks create additional broad money whenever they make a loan. Now, while this is nothing new, its sometimes overlooked as the main way in which money is created and it runs contrary to the view sometimes put forward that banks can only lend out deposits that they already have ( sic). In fact loans create deposits, not the other way around."
"...the authors point out that only currency (cash = coins and notes) is created by the Bank of England (2014a, s. 10). The rest of the money supply, in the UK about 97%, is account money, which originates in banks:
Commercial banks create money, in the form of bank deposits, by making new loans. When a bank makes a loan, for example to someone taking out a mortgage to buy a house, it does not typically do so by giving them thousands of pounds worth of banknotes. Instead, it credits their bank account with a bank deposit of the size of the mortgage. At that moment, new money is created …. This description of money creation contrasts with the notion that banks can only lend out pre-existing money…. Bank deposits are simply a record of how much the bank itself owes its customers. So they are a liability of the bank, not an asset that could be lent out"
http://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue71/Ravn71.pdf
So yes, banks quite literally have a big supply of helicopter money at any given time.
Indeed, banks create money
Yes, loans increase the money supply.
So yes, banks quite literally have a big supply of helicopter money
Making a loan isn't helicopter money.
Is there anything in economics and banking that you're not confused about?
If banks worked as peer to peer lending it wouldn't be.
But banks don't work that way.
Customer A deposits $1,000 in bank A.
Bank A can then give a loan to customer B for $900 which he transfers to bank B.
Now bank B can make a loan for $810.
Both bank A and bank B can now charge interests on the loans they granted, although they are not producing anything at all. They are getting an income out of money which isn't theirs ( it's actually the money of Customer A)
Why not consider that helicopter money? Because banks made a huge effort filling forms?
Why not consider that helicopter money?
Because loaning out a portion of deposits isn't helicopter money.
Let us suppose now that one day a helicopter flies over this community and drops an additional $1,000 in bills from the sky, which is, of course, hastily collected by members of the community. Let us suppose further that everyone is convinced that this is a unique event which will never be repeated.
So assume I accept your savings... and then offer AndyIllusion a loan.
Then I charge him interests on that loan.
Then I receive monthly payments for that loan.
I was pennyless at the beginning of the transactions and now I receive monthly installments out of nothing but a note.
It's like having a monthly helicopter money drop... except it only works for the bankers.