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Presentation
Is Fractional Reserve Banking Necessarily Immoral?
The Research and Scholarship Symposium (2013-2019)
  • Ryan T. Beach, Cedarville University
  • Jeffrey E. Haymond, Cedarville University
Type of Submission
Podium Presentation
Keywords
  • Fractional reserve banking,
  • ethics
Abstract

When Deposits are made to a bank, the bank can loan out most of it, while claiming they have the money to pay you back. When you deposit money in a bank, only a fraction of it stays on deposit; the rest is loaned out. When the person receives the loan spends it, money goes to another bank, repeating the process. Ultimately, if the central bank puts $100 of reserves into the FRB system, $1000 of money could enter the economy.

Faculty Sponsor or Advisor’s Name
Jeffrey Haymond
Campus Venue
Stevens Student Center, Room 245
Location
Cedarville, OH
Start Date
4-16-2014 1:00 PM
End Date
4-16-2014 1:20 PM
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0
Citation Information
Ryan T. Beach and Jeffrey E. Haymond. "Is Fractional Reserve Banking Necessarily Immoral?" (2014)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jeffrey_haymond/14/