For those wondering, here is an empirical paper on the subject demonstrating no connection between deposits and loans. "This is the contribution of the present

For those wondering, here is an empirical paper on the subject demonstrating no connection between deposits and loans. "This is the contribution of the present paper. An empirical test is conducted, whereby money is borrowed from a cooperating bank, while its internal records are being monitored, to establish whether in the process of making the loan available to the borrower, the bank transfers these funds from other accounts within or outside the bank, or whether they are newly created. This study establishes for the first time empirically that banks individually create money out of nothing. The money supply is created as ‘fairy dust’ produced by the banks individually, "out of thin air"." https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1057521914001070 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105752191...