Some people are surprised to learn that a bank doesn’t keep all of its deposits on hand, in reserve, in case its depositors decide to withdraw it. (If you know someone who lived through the Great Depression in the ’30s they remember FDR’s “bank holidays”: when the banks run out of $ it’s time to [...]
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