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Thursday, March 18, 2010

Now Bernanke Wants To Eliminate Reserve Requirements Completely

Up until now, the United States has operated under a "fractional reserve" banking system. Banks have always been required to keep a small fraction of the money deposited with them for a reserve, but were allowed to loan out the rest. But now it turns out that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke wants to completely eliminate minimum reserve requirements, which he says "impose costs and distortions on the banking system".

posted by NERDMANN @ 5:19 PM 

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