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It's a simplification, but I agree, it's not fully accurate.

I'm guessing what you're getting at here is that bank would technically have a $100 liability with the customer and $100 in cash on its balance sheet.

The point I was trying to make is that there's just $100 of spending power in this hypothetical economy.




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