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TANSTAAFL debunked

By Edmund Blackadder in Edmund Blackadder's Diary
Fri Sep 20, 2013 at 10:31:17 AM EST
Tags: economics, politics, physics, mehrling, economics of money and banking, coursera, expansion of the balance sheet, expansion on both sides, creating money out of thin air, convenience (all tags)
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From Economics of Money and Banking, Part I, Lecture 5-5 "Correspondent Banking Bilateral Balances", from about 5:11 to 5:32:


Bank A is saying "I owe you a thousand dollars", Bank B is saying "No I owe you a thousand dollars." They both owe each other a thousand dollars. So they've created these deposits from thin air, they're just a swap of IOUs; they've expanded their balance sheets - both of them. How can that possibly do anything? You know - there's no such thing as a free lunch, it seems like it couldn't possibly do anything.

But it does.


Because [he goes on to explain] that means that if A needs to pay B they can do it by just using their deposits. No reserves need to travel.

The other interesting point is that, if A pays B, A's balance sheet contracts. But the contraction is of an expanded balance sheet. The expansion itself was first created out of thin air; then the contraction debits that expansion. So, Bank A might claim something like "Oh no! The sky is falling! Our balance sheet contracted!" and use that melodrama to get attention from an audience; but they don't mention that that contraction is only of a pre-existing expansion that they created out of thin air. So they're not really worse off; only on paper are they "contracting". They still have their cars and houses and servants. But they use this idea of a fictional "contraction" of a fictional deposit to create fear, uncertainty, and doubt so that people will continue to give them attention.

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add some meat, then submit, please.$ (none / 0) (#1)
by mirko on Fri Sep 20, 2013 at 10:55:44 AM EST


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Let me help you (none / 0) (#2)
by Riddick on Fri Sep 20, 2013 at 02:35:49 PM EST

Blastar Paraphase:

Here is your original text:

From Economics of Money and Banking, Part I, Lecture 5-5 "Correspondent Banking Bilateral Balances", from about 5:11 to 5:32: Bank A is saying "I owe you a thousand dollars", Bank B is saying "No I owe you a thousand dollars." They both owe each other a thousand dollars. So they've created these deposits from thin air, they're just a swap of IOUs; they've expanded their balance sheets - both of them. How can that possibly do anything? You know - there's no such thing as a free lunch, it seems like it couldn't possibly do anything. But it does. Because [he goes on to explain] that means that if A needs to pay B they can do it by just using their deposits. No reserves need to travel. The other interesting point is that, if A pays B, A's balance sheet contracts. But the contraction is of an expanded balance sheet. The expansion itself was first created out of thin air; then the contraction debits that expansion. So, Bank A might claim something like "Oh no! The sky is falling! Our balance sheet contracted!" and use that melodrama to get attention from an audience; but they don't mention that that contraction is only of a pre-existing expansion that they created out of thin air. So they're not really worse off; only on paper are they "contracting". They still have their cars and houses and servants. But they use this idea of a fictional "contraction" of a fictional deposit to create fear, uncertainty, and doubt so that people will continue to give them attention.

Here is your text paraphrased:

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MAN YOU FUCKED THAT STRAWMAN UP (none / 1) (#4)
by LilDebbie on Fri Sep 20, 2013 at 10:09:23 PM EST

YOU MUST HAVE A HUGE PENIS

My name is LilDebbie and I have a garden.
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