TURMEL: Social Credit Stream #5 40k

TURMEL: On Social Credit
     The reason I don't mind going into great detail about the
creation of money is that it's done in such a way as to fool people
into believing that the banking system which DOES lend out newly
created money is lending out depositors' savings. How can those who
admit that it is creating money refuse to link that to a tap and
continue to persist in the notion that it operates like a piggy bank
reservoir?
     To facilitate discussion, I'm going to suggest that rather than
have the bank write a deposit to your account, they give you a deposit
slip. When you make a loan from the bank, you give the bank an IOU. I
think this will clear up a lot.
     I'll actually do the movements of the money and the IOUs and
deposit slips through the system using $ for dollars, DS for Deposit
Slip and IOU for debt notes.
     On Oct 28 1995, jamcorp@world.std.com (Jonathan Priluck) wrote:
:>::Okay, suppose you have $100 and you deposit it in the bank.  The bank
:>::needs to, either by law or just to cover demands for cash, to keep some
:>::of that in reserves, say, arbitrarily, $10.  It then loans out the
:>::remaining $90.
:
:O.K.  So now the bank has $100 (which you placed on deposit and so
:theoretically have access to)
                                PIGGY BANK
                   Deposits    Interest(paid)  Loans Paid
Depositor              |             |             |
          |------------|-------------|-------------|--------------|
          |       |----|-------------|-------------|----|         |
DS100     |       |     $100     RESERVOIR              |         |
          |       |----|-------------|-------------|----|         |
          |------------|-------------|-------------|--------------|
                       |             |             |
                  Withdrawals     Expenses      Loans Made

     So the piggy bank has the 100 dollar bills and you have a deposit
slip for $100.

:>::The person loaned the $90

                                PIGGY BANK
             Deposits    Interest(paid)  Loans Paid
Depositors      |             |             |
       |--------|-------------|-------------|--------|
DS100  |   |----|-------------|-------------|----|   |       Borrower
       |   | $10          RESERVOIR     IOU90    |   |         $90
       |   |----|-------------|-------------|----|   |
       |--------|-------------|-------------|--------|
                |             |             |
           Withdrawals     Expenses      Loans Made

:>:: buys goods from someone else, who deposits the $90 in the bank.
:
                                PIGGY BANK
             Deposits    Interest(paid)  Loans Paid
Depositors      |             |             |
       |--------|-------------|-------------|--------|
DS100  |   |----|-------------|-------------|----|   |
DS90   |   | $10          RESERVOIR     IOU90    |   |       Borrower
       |   |      $90                            |   |          $0
       |   |----|-------------|-------------|----|   |
       |--------|-------------|-------------|--------|
                |             |             |
           Withdrawals     Expenses      Loans Made

:O.K.  now the grocer who sold the goods has $90, the person who spent the
:money has groceries but also owes the bank $90 plus interest. Now
:theoretically the Grocer still has access to the $90 he placed on deposit
:(and I still theoretically still have acess to the initial $100 for a total
:of $190 "deposited" in the bank between you and the grocer).  Let's hope
:that you and the grocer don't need to make big withdrawals becuase it get's
:worse.
:
     The person who borrowed the $90 out of your piggy bank replaces
it with his IOU for $90. The grocer then deposits the $90 into the
piggy bank and gets a deposit slip for $90.
     It's true that the original depositor has his deposit slip for
$100 and the grocer has deposit slip for $90 but the piggy bank still
only holds $100 and the $90 IOU.

:>::The bank holds $9 to maintain cash reserves, and loans out $81.
:
                                PIGGY BANK
             Deposits    Interest(paid)  Loans Paid
Depositors      |             |             |
       |--------|-------------|-------------|--------|
DS100  |   |----|-------------|-------------|----|   |
DS 90  |   | $10          RESERVOIR     IOU90    |   |      Borrower
       |   | $ 9                        IOU81    |   |         $81
       |   |----|-------------|-------------|----|   |
       |--------|-------------|-------------|--------|
                |             |             |
           Withdrawals     Expenses      Loans Made

     Again, the person who borrowed the $81 out of your piggy bank
replaces it with his IOU for $81.

:>::And so on.

     The borrower spends the $81 and that vendor deposits it:

             Deposits    Interest(paid)  Loans Paid
Depositors      |             |             |
       |--------|-------------|-------------|--------|
DS100  |   |----|-------------|-------------|----|   |
DS 90  |   | $10          RESERVOIR     IOU90    |   |
DS 81  |   | $ 9                        IOU81    |   |      Borrower
       |   |      $81                            |   |         $0
       |   |----|-------------|-------------|----|   |
       |--------|-------------|-------------|--------|
                |             |             |
           Withdrawals     Expenses      Loans Made

     $8 is held in reserves and the other $73 is loaned out in
exchange for another $73IOU
                                PIGGY BANK
             Deposits    Interest(paid)  Loans Paid
Depositors      |             |             |
       |--------|-------------|-------------|--------|
DS100  |   |----|-------------|-------------|----|   |
DS 90  |   | $10          RESERVOIR     IOU90    |   |
DS 81  |   | $ 9                        IOU81    |   |      Borrower
       |   | $ 8                        IOU73    |   |        $73
       |   |----|-------------|-------------|----|   |
       |--------|-------------|-------------|--------|
                |             |             |
           Withdrawals     Expenses      Loans Made

     The borrower spends the $73 and that vendor deposits it:

             Deposits    Interest(paid)  Loans Paid
Depositors      |             |             |
       |--------|-------------|-------------|--------|
DS100  |   |----|-------------|-------------|----|   |
DS 90  |   | $10          RESERVOIR     IOU90    |   |
DS 81  |   | $ 9                        IOU81    |   |
DS 73  |   | $ 8                        IOU73    |   |
       |   |      $73                            |   |      Borrower
       |   |----|-------------|-------------|----|   |         $0
       |--------|-------------|-------------|--------|
                |             |             |
           Withdrawals     Expenses      Loans Made

:Exactly. Each time the loan is spent the loan is still owed to the bank and
:the deposit from which the loan was made is still owed to multiple
:investors.  If you can see that perhaps money and credit are one and the
:same then you ought to be able to see the new money being created.
:
     At this point, the first depositor has his deposit slip for $100
and the savers have deposit slips for $90, $81, and $73 but the piggy
bank still only holds $100 in cash and the $90, $81 and $73 IOUs. I
see no creation of any new money here. I see more deposit slips and
more IOUs but no new money.

:>:     Though he's again talking about the banks creating money, his
:>:example doesn't show any new money being created.
:
:I see new money being created.
:
     I don't. I see more deposit slips and more IOUs but I haven't
seen the new money being created that you say you see.

:Each time they make a loan they double up on
:a deposit and they create a double up on the lender who both owes that
:money and who has also spent the money, another double call on the same
:dollars.
:
     Note that he calls it a double call on the same dollars. That
would indicate that there are no new dollars and only the same dollars
that we're dealing with.

:Clearly after the first iteration of the example if there is no
:new money then both the origional depositor ($100 that started everything)
:and the second depositor (the Grocer who deposited the $90 from which the
:bank then made another loan) cannot both withdraw their funds from the bank
:becuase together they have $190 on deposit and the bank only has $100 (the
:$10 reserve plus the money on deposit).
:
     Clearly, if the banking system operated this way, after the money
keeps being reloaned up to the limit dependent on the reserve ratio,
the first depositor has his deposit slip for $100 and other depositors
have deposit slips for
(DS90  + DS81 + DS73 + DS66 + DS59 + DS53 +...)= $900 new deposit slips
     the piggy bank still only holds $100 in cash and the
(IOU90 +IOU81 +IOU73 +IOU66 +IOU59 +IOU53 +...)= $900 new IOU slips
 
 

 

     At the limit of the process:

             Deposits    Interest(paid)  Loans Paid
Depositors      |             |             |
       |--------|-------------|-------------|--------|
DS100  |   |----|-------------|-------------|----|   |
DS 90  |   | $10          RESERVOIR     IOU90    |   |
DS 81  |   | $ 9                        IOU81    |   |
DS 73  |   | $ 8                        IOU73    |   |
DS 66  |   | $ 7                        IOU66    |   |
DS 59  |   | $ 7                        IOU59    |   |
DS 53  |   | $ 6                        IOU53    |   |
  |    |   |  |                            |     |   |
  |    |   |------                      ------   |   |
  |    |   | $100                       IOU900   |   |      Borrower
  |    |   |----|-------------|-------------|----|   |         $0
-----  |--------|-------------|-------------|--------|
DS1000          |             |             |
           Withdrawals     Expenses      Loans Made

     Lots of new Deposit Slips and IOU slips but no new money, only
the original 100 dollars in your piggy bank and $900 in IOUs matching
1,000 in Deposit slips.
     Get yourself a piggy bank and 100 dollars and no matter how many
times you relend and reborrow that 100 dollars, you'll find that you
don't end up with more money. If your piggy bank does manage to end up
with more than 100 dollars, the government will certainly be knocking
on your door.

:If you catch them in the middle of
:the cycle right after they have loaned out the next $81 then it's even
:worse.  There is only $19 actually in the bank to cover $190 in deposits
:(notice this is 10%, which is no coincidence). If you can't see new money
:than it can only be becuase you don't want to see it. In which case
:nobody can help you to see that which you do not want to see.
:
     It's not that I don't want to see the new money beyond
the original 100 dollars which you see, it's that all I've been shown
is new deposit slips and new IOUs. No new money.

:>:     I don't see more than the original $100 in this analysis. Does
:>:anyone else.
:
:I guess the answer is yes, I see more than the one hundred.  I am counting
:not only the money that actually *is* in the bank but also the money that is
:*supposed* to be in the bank from the perspective of the *depositors*.
:
     That explains it. I count as money only the money that actually
*is* in the bank and don't count money that is *supposed* to be in the
bank since the model shows that the money that you think is *supposed*
to be in the bank really isn't. Just because you think that the new
money is supposed to be in the bank doesn't make it so.

:Furthermore I see new money being created in the form of debt which
:the bank beleives the loan recipient can repay even though the
:dollars to repay that loan are already spent and redeposited by
:whoever sold him goods and services. I see new money sprourting up at
:every turn.
:
     I've seen IOUs being created in the form of debt which the bank
believes the loan recipient can repay. I've seen IOUs and Deposit
Slips sprouting up at every turn but I still haven't seen more than
the original $100.

:>:The $100 goes into the piggy bank. $10 goes to reserves
:>:and $90 is loaned out.  That still adds up to $100.
:
:Except how much money is supposed to be on deposit?
:
     Yes, your piggy bank will have $900 more in Deposits Slips than
when you started but you will still only have your original $100 and
$900 in IOUs.

:I guess I'm finished, the answer is yes, I see money being created.
:I don't know if it really matters.  But yes I see it.
:
     You can't really be seeing money created in your piggy bank. Even
though no depositor can get more than $100 out of it at a time, you
want to see because you know it's true that everyone DOES have access
to their deposits all the time.
     The flaw in your explanation of how the banking system does lend
out new money is that you don't have a tap. My model with the tap
works exactly the way you think it does and I find it hard to
understand that you insist the bank creates new loans and you won't
accept that it doesn't come out depositors savings.
     I'll now go through exactly the same process with my blueprint
and you'll notice that from the exterior point of view, it looks
exactly like your piggy bank except that it does create new money:

:O.K.  So now the bank has $100 (which you placed on deposit and so
:theoretically have access to)

                   FRACTIONAL RESERVE BANK
            Deposits     Interest(in)   Loan Payments
Depositors      |             |              |
DS100  |--------|-------------|------------|---------|
       |        |             |        |---|---|     |
       |   |----|-------------|----|   | DRAIN |     |
       |   |  $100                 |   |-------|     |
       |   |       RESERVOIR       |                 |
       |   |                       |   |-------|     |
       |   |----|-------------|----|   |  TAP  |     |
       |        |             |        |---|---|     |
       |--------|-------------|------------|---------|
                |             |            |
          Withdrawals   Bank Expenses  Loans Out

:>::The person loaned the $90

                   FRACTIONAL RESERVE BANK
            Deposits     Interest(in)   Loan Payments
Depositors      |             |              |
DS100  |--------|-------------|------------|---------|
       |        |             |        |---|---|     |
       |   |----|-------------|----|   | DRAIN |     |     Borrower
       |   | $10  $90        IOU90 |   |-------|     |        $90
       |   |       RESERVOIR       |                 |         |
       |   |                       |   |-------|     |         |
       |   |----|-------------|----|   |  TAP  |     |         |
       |        |             |        |---|---|     |         |
       |--------|-------------|------------|---------|         |
                |             |            |-------------------|
        Withdrawals   Bank Expenses  Loans Out

     The borrower received new money from the tap and the depositor's
$100 had 10 dollars held in reserve by the central bank and the other
$90 held by the bank. In this way, the depositor still has use of his
$100 if he wishes even though the borrower is also using his $90 in
the economy.

:>:: buys goods from someone else, who deposits the $90 in the bank.
:
                |----------------------------------------------|
                |  FRACTIONAL RESERVE BANK                     |
            Deposits     Interest(in)   Loan Payments          |
Depositors      |             |              |                 |
       |--------|-------------|------------|---------|         |
       |        |             |        |---|---|     |         |
DS100  |   |----|-------------|----|   | DRAIN |     |         |
DS90   |   | $10  $90        IOU90 |   |-------|     |         |
       |   |   $90 RESERVOIR       |                 |         |
       |   |                       |   |-------|     |         |
       |   |----|-------------|----|   |  TAP  |     |     Borrower
       |        |             |        |---|---|     |        $0
       |--------|-------------|------------|---------|
                |             |            |
           Withdrawals   Bank Expenses  Loans Out
 

:O.K.  now the gorcer who sold the goods has $90, the person who spent the
:money has groceries but also owes the bank $90 plus interest. Now
:theoretically the Grocer still has access to the $90 he placed on deposit
:(and I still theoretically still have acess to the initial $100 for a total
:of $190 "deposited" in the bank between you and the grocer).  Let's hope
:that you and the grocer don't need to make big withdrawals becuase it get's
:worse.
:>::The bank holds $9 to maintain cash reserves, and loans out $81.
:
                   FRACTIONAL RESERVE BANK
            Deposits     Interest(in)   Loan Payments
Depositors      |             |              |
       |--------|-------------|------------|---------|
       |        |             |        |---|---|     |
       |   |----|-------------|----|   | DRAIN |     |
DS100  |   | $10  $90        IOU90 |   |-------|     |      Borrower
DS90   |   | $9   $81        IOU81 |                 |        $81
       |   |       RESERVOIR       |                 |         |
       |   |                       |   |-------|     |         |
       |   |----|-------------|----|   |  TAP  |     |         |
       |        |             |        |---|---|     |         |
       |--------|-------------|------------|---------|         |
                |             |            |-------------------|
           Withdrawals   Bank Expenses  Loans Out

     What you say is still true that both you have access to your new
loan and the grocer has access to his old savings. Under a fractional
reserve system, you can both make total withdrawals.

:>::The bank holds $9 to maintain cash reserves, and loans out $81.
:
                   FRACTIONAL RESERVE BANK
            Deposits     Interest(in)   Loan Payments
Depositors      |             |              |
       |--------|-------------|------------|---------|
       |        |             |        |---|---|     |
       |   |----|-------------|----|   | DRAIN |     |
DS100  |   | $10  $90        IOU90 |   |-------|     |      Borrower
DS90   |   | $9   $81        IOU81 |                 |        $81
       |   |       RESERVOIR       |                 |         |
       |   |                       |   |-------|     |         |
       |   |----|-------------|----|   |  TAP  |     |         |
       |        |             |        |---|---|     |         |
       |--------|-------------|------------|---------|         |
                |             |            |-------------------|
           Withdrawals   Bank Expenses  Loans Out

     Again, the person who borrowed the $81 out of of a fractional
reserve system is replacing it with his IOU for $81.

:>::And so on.

     At the limit of the process:

                   FRACTIONAL RESERVE BANK
            Deposits     Interest(in)   Loan Payments
Depositors      |             |              |
       |--------|-------------|------------|---------|
       |        |             |        |---|---|     |
       |   |----|-------------|----|   | DRAIN |     |
DS100  |   | $10  $90        IOU90 |   |-------|     |      Borrower
DS 90  |   | $9   $81        IOU81 |                 |        $0
DS 81  |   | $8   $73        IOU73 |                 |
DS 73  |   | $7   $66        IOU66 |                 |
DS 66  |   | $7   $59        IOU59 |                 |
DS 59  |   |  |    |           |   |                 |
  |    |   |  |    |           |   |                 |
  |    |   |---- -----       ----- |                 |
------ |   |$100  $900      IOU900 |                 |
DS1000 |   |                       |                 |
       |   |       RESERVOIR       |   |-------|     |
       |   |----|-------------|----|   |  TAP  |     |
       |        |             |        |---|---|     |
       |--------|-------------|------------|---------|
                |             |            |
           Withdrawals   Bank Expenses  Loans Out

     So with the original $100, the fractional reserve also allowed
for total deposits to be $1000 and for total IOUs to be 900 except
that new money was actually issued for those IOUs permitting all
depositors to have access to their real money, not *supposed* money,
at the same time.
     It's a fascinatingly tricky mechanism but it's purpose is to
foster the impression that borrowers are getting savers' deposits and
that savers therefore deserve to get interest for lending borrowers
their money.
     This may have surely been true when banking did operate like a
piggy bank without the creation of new money but because it certainly
is not true now that banks operate more like a casino banks issuing
new liquidity. The matching of loans to deposits successfully hides
the fact that no one is giving up the current use of their money since
it is new money being loaned out and therefore no one is being
deprived of the use of their money.
     I can only stress that if a bank creates new money, it must have
tap and if it destroys money when loans are paid, it must have a sink.
No model that creates liquidity can be complete without a source and a
sink.
---

Subject: Re: TURMEL: On Social Credit

     On Oct 29 1995, huyert@qed.uucp (Timothy Huyer) wrote:

:I mention that my time constraint is becoming binding, and Turmel
:responds with an exceptionally long post, digging up virtually everything
:that he and I have ever exchanged.  Included are a number of points
:which I had explicitly conceded in previous posts, and should, as a
:result, be closed.
:
     I don't remember you conceding many posts so perhaps you could
tell me which points you made that you now concede were wrong. Also,
you are the one who earlier wrote that I was ducking your points.

:If I was cynical, I would suspect that Turmel is
:trying to use my time constraint so that I will leave this thread,
:thereby allowing him to claim "victory".
:
     No, I'm trying to get you to admit that the plumbing model I've
provided for the creation of money is correct. I'm only claiming
victory because you can't rebut one of my technical arguments and have
to resort to suggesting my arguments are handled in some of your
books as your only way out. With 29 different points of contention, if
you can't rebut even one, why should I infer one of your books can
rebut even one either? After all, your performance is a function of
those books.

:        Turmel's repeated attacks on issues that I have already noted
:were poorly explained by me are fascinating.  It is as if I have somehow
:become the total personification of all economists, their
:super-spokes-person.  My head swells with all of this ego!

     The reason I chose pick your arguments apart in detail is the
fact you made statements like:

:Actually, this social credit b.s. not only does not belong on such groups
:as sci.engr but does not belong on any sci.* newsgroup.  Instead, it
:should more appropriately be sent to nonesense.* or fiction.*
:To claim that there is any scientific principle involved requires the
:premise that the foundation of the analysis is rational.  Notwithstanding
:all of the mystical differential equations that Mr. Turmel lusts over,
:his arguments do not follow logical premises.
:        In summary, bullshit + LaPlace Transforms = bullshit
:                    bullshit + real analysis = bullshit
:                    bullshit + any kind of math = bullshit
:This is perhaps why Mr. Turmel has never replied to any of my posts which
:demonstrate, very simply, using basic and straightforward undergraduate
:level economics, why his social credit theories are of no value.
:        However, rather than suggesting to Mr. Turmel that he should stop
:spouting such blatantly wrong information on the 'net, I would like to
:encourage him to continue to do so.  Mr. Turmel's other profession is an
:engineer.  If he applies the same diligence to engineering as he does to
:his social credit philosophies [sic], then I sure as hell do not wish to
:cross over any bridge, etc., which he might have had a hand in designing,
:on the likelihood that it falls down.  By all means, please sputter away
:on this forum; it is far safer than building a bridge with the assumption
:that sand has the same consistency as concrete.

     How does it feel having to concede to someone making arguments
you're described as:
     "more appropriate to nonsense.* or fiction.*"
     "mystical differential equations"
     "do not follow logical premises"
     "bullshit, bullshit, bullshit, bullshit, bullshit, bullshit"
     "theories of no value"
     "spouting such blatantly wrong information"
     "not cross over any bridge he had a hand in designing"
     "sputter away"
     "that sand has the same consistency as concrete"

     This sure represents a lot of insults for someone you had to
concede several points to.

:Apparently,
:if I explain something poorly, this means that the entire economic theory
:is at fault.  I would advance the alternate hypothesis that I am simply a
:lousy instructor, and that, should this ever be an issue, people should
:be warned away from any class that I might be teaching!
:
     It wasn't that you explained anything poorly. It's that you were
explaining things which you say you later explicitly conceded were
wrong.

:     I had charitably assumed that the reason why Turmel was not
:understanding the points I was raising was because I was a poor explainer
:and because the time constraint was further limiting what marginal
:ability I may have.
:
     You're still leaving the impression that you haven't conceded
that your facts were wrong.

:I thus suggested that, since I was not actually
:providing any original theory or explanation, that Turmel, since he
:apparently has the time to do so, should read one of the textbooks on
:economics, in which the points I was trying to make are explained in a
:much fuller and clearer manner.  Since there is both a University of
:Ottawa and Carleton U in Ottawa which both have econ depts, it seemed
:reasonable to assume that texts on economics were available in libraries
:within close access for Turmel.
:
     Why should I go read books by guys who don't even have a
blueprint of the system they're discussing? Once you do have the
blueprint, the monetary token system becomes rather trivial.

:        In fact, Turmel's replies clearly indicate that he is entirely
:unfamiliar with the economics literature available or even literature in
:the social sciences where terminology is standard.
:
     That is untrue. I have read many of the standard economic texts
which is one reason I've been able to handle each and every "but"
you're tried to present.

:Perhaps I am being
:naive in having expected that someone would challenge an entire science
:as well as the paradigm on which society operates without having even
:looked at the most basic literature available.
:
     And it is the fact that I am challenging an entire (pseudo)
science that seems to offend you. Why is it so hard to accept that an
engineer using systems engineering modelling techniques can't have
come up with the accurate blueprint despite 5000 years of failure by
economists to solve this most puzzling of systems?
     And frankly, that is my claim to fame. No economics textbook has
every used something as simple as a plumbing model to completely show
the flows of the monetary liquidity system. The analysis you've been
reading is absolutely unique since most engineers leave economics to
economists.
     And the fact it seems simple is not a weakness. Electrical
engineers have always used plumbing models to describe electrical
blueprints too using the tap and drain to represent the source and the
ground of a battery, area of the pipe to represent resistance and
current represent by liters of fluid. And it works. A plumbing model
can perfectly model the current flows in an electrical circuit and I
can see no reason that the same plumbing model couldn't perfectly
model the monetary flows in an economic system.
     Of course, using a blueprint model to analyze the financial
system does expose those economic falsities like the belief that banks
lend out their depositors' funds.

:        A case in point:
:
::      (16) He hasn't returned to explain why economists have failed
:: after 5000 years of managing the money system to produce a successful
:: stable system.
:
:Actually, I was trying to avoid causing you embarassment.
:
     Give me a break. Of the 29 points of contention between us, the
only one you choose to respond to is a subjective conclusion. I see no
response to any of the objective points dealing with the alternate
blueprints I raised.

:You see,
:economics has not existed for 5000 years.  Political economy only really
:got moving in the early 18th century, and even then things didn't take
:off until Adam Smith with his _Wealth of Nations_ published in 1776.  The
:evolution from political economy to economics took another century,
:although I am sure that economic historians can provide better or more
:clear information that me.  Even with the science of economics
:established, the influence of economists has not been that exceptional.
:
     Fractional reserve banking has been used for 5000 years and
they're still working the same debt slavery scam the same way today.

:If there is some secret cabal of economists who, in the fashion of the
:illuminati, control the world economy, they forgot to include me
:(probably because I am so lousy at explaining things...).
:
     They wouldn't include you until you understood how the money
system really worked and then you, like them, would have to be able to
live with yourself knowing how all the starvation, crime and misery
caused by the artificial insufficiency of money is preventable while
they continue to profit from the "death-gamble" loanshark industry.
     I'm sorry but even Jesus Christ provided a better description of
the banking system with his differential equation defining interest:
     "To those who have abundance will more be given but from those
who have no abundance, even what they have will be taken away."
     This question of growing debt may seem a philosophical point to
you but I see a lot of dead people as a result of the poverty inherent
due to the unsafe engineering design of the banking system. Is it any
wonder the only people Christ physically attacked with his whip were
the money-lenders? Perhaps, he, Mohammed, the saints of the Bible and
I simply have a clearer understanding of the evils of the system you
so heartily defend.

:Turmel replies to my recommendation that he read a book:
:
::      This is a standard economist's technique. When they can't answer
:: any of the questions themselves, they tell us the answer is in such
:: and such a textbook. That gives the impression that they the questions
:: left unhandled are handled in the book and they might still be right.
:
:I apologise if I incorrectly assumed that you could read and/or find the
:library.  The books do have nice pictures though, so they could still be
:worthwhile.
:
     Once again, you duck the technical points I make to resort to
insults.

:Perhaps, if you read the book, and still find the questions
:"unhandled" or answered incorrectly, you can bring those comments to this
:thread.
:
     After I've corrected you on 29 points, how is my adding to the
list by challenging even more points going to affect your failure to
respond to the original 29?

:        As a possible example, if I gave a completely awful proof of the
:First Fundamental Theorem of Calculus (and, off the top of my head, all
:that you would get would be an awful and unclear proof), I have, by no
:means, proven that calculus is all horse-shit.  If I recognized that my
:proof was awful I could choose to cite a book that contains a good
:proof.  This is what I am doing, except in economics, of course, and not
:math.
:
     I am not saying that your methodology is wrong, I'm saying that
many of your premises are wrong. There's a difference.

:        But then again, you can lead someone to a university but you
:can't make him/her think.
:
     Resorting to insults doesn't explain why you had to concede so
many points to someone you say you can't make think.

:It is much less time consuming for both me and Turmel, as well as anyone
:else on this thread, to simply read the relevant book and go from there.
:I will thus not reply to the huge quantity of material that Turmel has
:thrown into his last post and will pause for a while to see if book
:reading is or is not a lost ability.
:
     If you don't want to concede more of my points but only to the
ones you've already conceded, so be it. This thread did produce new
analysis using my blueprint which still remains unchallenged. And I
stake my engineering integrity on the fact that the blueprint will
remain unchallenged as the true model of a fractional reserve banking
system.

     jamcorp@world.std.com (Jonathan Priluck) wrote:
:
:>:I see new money being created.
:>:
:>     I don't. I see more deposit slips and more IOUs but I haven't
:>seen the new money being created that you say you see.
:
:Fine.  I understand what you mean and I agree.  No new money is being
:created according to your definition of what constitutes money.
:
     Here's another who has to concede that no new money is being
created in the original piggy bank tap-less model.

:And you
:understand what I mean too, even if you will never (even if you lived to be
:1000 years old) give any credence to alternate definitions of money.
:
     I don't give credence to his alternate definition of IOUs as
money. I point out that those IOUs aren't spendable like money and
aren't money. Only money out of the tap is money.

:So everyone understands everyone and that's the end of it.
:
     No, everyone doesn't understand everyone. There is a
contradiction in economics to be dealt with and you haven't dealt with
it. Is your loan new money from a creationary tap or is it depositors'
savings. It can't be both and you may not continue to believe that it
is both. Unless you opt to continue the double-think that you're
getting old and new money at the same time, you have to choose .

:I already regret responding to this thread. I will not do it again.
:
     Another one giving up and withdrawing from the debate.

:>     Note that he calls it a double call on the same dollars. That
:>would indicate that there are no new dollars and only the same dollars
:>that we're dealing with.
:
:You understand what I'm saying and are playing silly definitional games.
:
     They are not silly definitional games. Whether the money supply
goes up when you make a loan or it doesn't is a technical point which
is the reason I've included a choice of blueprints for you to select
as the correct one.

     In another article, he says:

:>     The flaw in your explanation of how the banking system does lend
:>out new money is that you don't have a tap. My model with the tap
:>works exactly the way you think it does and I find it hard to
:>understand that you insist the bank creates new loans and you won't
:>accept that it doesn't come out depositors savings.
:
:You sir are either a very poor reader or are insane.
:        Listen carefully.....
:                I AGREEE WITH YOU!!!!!  I KNOW THERE IS A TAP!!!
:                I KNOW BANKS ARE NOT PIGGY BANKS AND I ALSO KNOW
:                THAT MOST PEOPLE THINK THEY ARE.
:
     But the fact is that most people out there don't know there is a
tap and even if they admit there is one, they don't know it is in the
private banks. Since you accept that the loans are from the tap, would
you now agree that my simply plumbing blueprint and how the banking
system really works is correct?

:        I am yelliong at you becuase you seem to think nobody understands
:what you are saying even when they go out of their way to try and help you
:explain it to others in new words with a new perspective.
:
     If you've been following this thread, you must be aware that very
few understand what I'm saying and no one has tried to explain the
location and operation of the tap as yet.
     You are the first to correctly conclude that banks are not like
piggy banks. And you are also correct that most people think they are
piggy banks judging by the number of people before you who explained
the operation of the banks as piggy banks. Every time someone said
that the bankers were lending out their depositors' funds, we had
someone who did not know banks are not piggy banks.
     Failure to understand this makes it impossible to understand the
system as a whole. It's for that reason I've take such time to detail
the actual flows between the two blueprints. And I'm pleased that this
unique new technical information has been elicited and I hope that
having the blueprint will be of service to those who do not as yet
know that banks don't operate like piggy banks.

:Furthermore I
:have no idea who I am responding to becuase you seem to be having arguments
:with yourself, first posting one position ad tehn responding to it as if you
:were someone else.  Go away.
:
     This is a cheap insult given so many different points which have
been argued. I have no idea why you think that I've been arguing with
myself.

:Have a nice day.
:
     Having another economic thinker regret responding is a nice day.

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