The Free Market Center
The Free Market Center
If banks can make successful loans in a 100% Reserve Banking System with no increase in the quantity of money, what happens to the quantity of money when the borrower fails and defaults on his loan?
This second model depicts the effects on the quantity of money—within a 100% reserve banking system—using outcome #2, in which a grower borrows money and then cannot repay it. The model shows the following transactions: