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“What Hawtrey is doing is looking at actual banking practices in late 19th and early 20th century Britain and talking about the way bankers expand and contract credit by creating bank loans and liquidity. Issuing and paying off loans is the creation and destruction of money, which doesn’t happen at the central bank—although the central bank plays a very important role today.” Read more...
Samuel A. Chambers, Political Scientist