Well yeah, even on CB balance sheet bank reserves are also liabilities that are not promises to pay, right? (Unless they are promises to pay cash, but then isn’t cash likewise a promise to pay reserves?)
In this sense, reserves are promises to pay notes. The argument is exclusively with regard to notes outstanding. IMHO being able to deposit notes doesn't really mean they are a promise to pay reserves, but I think that's the general argument against this article.
My broader point re: national accounting logic is that it would be odd in that framework to have an asset that is nobody’s liability but which is created and destroyed by balance sheet decisions rather than production
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