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Can you explain to me how a long rambling story on reddit counts as "thoroughly refuted"? Perhaps you could link to the salient points because I missed them. W
by buff-a 15y ago
Can you explain to me how a long rambling story on reddit counts as "thoroughly refuted"? Perhaps you could link to the salient points because I missed them.
What is "liquidity" any more than "reputation"? Why do banks get loaned short term paper when nobody trusts them? Does the Serious Sam Android App get a bailout while they shore up their credibility? Nobody is buying their product because of a "reputation" problem. Where is their $400bn in short term paper? I'm sure they can get buy on the interest from that while they recover.
Apparently only banks are allowed to loan money that they don't have, and when they lose their reputation, we just loan them short term money until either a) everybody forgets or b) its clear that no banks will be allowed to fail.
I'm not objecting to fractional reserve lending provided we have one simple rule: when the rich people in charge fuck it up so badly then they get wiped out.