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So basically all commercial banks are free to issue unlimited loans (and create unlimited new dollars)?



Basically, yes. There are “capital” requirements, but as far as I can tell that’s basically just laundering their loan business by trading equity with peer banks, which are of course largely based on loan performance.




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