Check this out..
There's a bank run in Greece! hehehe
This is from yesterday.
Before I answer your question on why money is withdrawn, we have to understand what exactly "money" is. This is called the Exter's Monetary Pyramid
About a century ago, Gold created the inverted base of the Money
Notice how risk & liquidity is increased from Gold to cash to t-bill to stocks... During crisis "money flows towards "risk-aversion" (the bottom part of the pyramid). During boom-time, money flows to the upper part of the pyramid(all things rational)
If you understand this pyramid, you understand leverage. You understand banking, you understand fractional reserve lending.
Remember i explained you that banks create this overlapping ownership to capital causing market forces to go haywire.. When your house value increases, its not the same as having liquid cash. When you have $100k in stocks, its not the same as CASH. When you have $100k in your bank account, even that is not the same as CASH. And when you have CASH, its not as good as Gold.
All this stuff, I can bet you, no school, college or university would discuss in detail on Campus.
Run on the Bank occurs when people fear the bank is about to go belly up. The act of withdrawal becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Central Banks try to provide liquidity but without the adding more Gold at the base, the new liquidity increases the risk of inflation. Huge amount of liquidity risks loss of faith in the currency itself.
Will tag a few more folks here
[MENTION=13871]Unicorn[/MENTION] @imran1976 @ConcernedPaki @cefspan @hans @itsnotme90 @Keepinformed @mrk123
There's a bank run in Greece! hehehe

This is from yesterday.
Before I answer your question on why money is withdrawn, we have to understand what exactly "money" is. This is called the Exter's Monetary Pyramid

About a century ago, Gold created the inverted base of the Money
- Gold is Risk-free. Holding Gold earns no interest
- Cash - Almost risk-free. Holding Cash earns almost on interest
- T-Bills (Govt Bonds): Higher risk than Cash. Earns interest
- Commercial paper (CDs, savings accounts, money market accounts
- Exchange traded Commodities & Stocks & derivatives
- OTC (Over the Counter) stocks, futures & derivatives
- Real-Estate
- Small Business
Notice how risk & liquidity is increased from Gold to cash to t-bill to stocks... During crisis "money flows towards "risk-aversion" (the bottom part of the pyramid). During boom-time, money flows to the upper part of the pyramid(all things rational)
If you understand this pyramid, you understand leverage. You understand banking, you understand fractional reserve lending.
Remember i explained you that banks create this overlapping ownership to capital causing market forces to go haywire.. When your house value increases, its not the same as having liquid cash. When you have $100k in stocks, its not the same as CASH. When you have $100k in your bank account, even that is not the same as CASH. And when you have CASH, its not as good as Gold.
All this stuff, I can bet you, no school, college or university would discuss in detail on Campus.
Run on the Bank occurs when people fear the bank is about to go belly up. The act of withdrawal becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Central Banks try to provide liquidity but without the adding more Gold at the base, the new liquidity increases the risk of inflation. Huge amount of liquidity risks loss of faith in the currency itself.
Will tag a few more folks here
[MENTION=13871]Unicorn[/MENTION] @imran1976 @ConcernedPaki @cefspan @hans @itsnotme90 @Keepinformed @mrk123
@AsifAmeer:
Dude, I have a question for you regarding Fractional Reserve lending. I have been reading up a bit about it and it seems its the prevalent style of banking around the world! With what I have read, it seems that this 'money multiplier' system was pretty occult in the sense that its inherent problem could only be exposed if people started withdrawing their money in banks in large numbers. Although even then these banks are covered by central banks of countries who lend out more to banks that might face problems with its reserve ratio due to large withdrawals (wow, I kind of sound like you :P)
My question is: If such large withdrawals is a precursor to the unearthing of this fraudulent prevalent system of lending, then where and when exactly did the withdrawal start happening? Or did withdrawals never happen and it was exposed some other way? How does the mortgage crises relate to this as well?
Looking forward to your response!
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