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the key measure when selling govt bonds is to ensure that those banks that have to buy them (GEMMs in the UK) have sufficient balances in their reserve accounts to be able to buy whatever the govt wants to sell.
Fortunately, this is exactly what happens
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deposits are created by credit extension....an expansion of the banking and BS balance sheet. Saying that BS have to fund with deposits doesn't mean what you think it means.
If a BS extends credit, it creates a deposit just like a bank.
Neither banks nor BS 'lend out' deposits
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all 'bank lending' whether by a bank or BS creates a new customer deposit.
Banks and building societies create customer deposits, they don't 'lend out' customer deposits, whether for mortgages or any other purpose
Once created, if a deposit is designated a 'cash ISA', nothing changes.
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Account and credit his cash ISA account. This doesn’t give the bank anything that it can ‘lend out’ or invest. The deposit is its liability, not its asset
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Your first point is wrong
If a bank wants to extend credit to a corporate, it can.
That ‘loan’ creates a customer deposit. If the holder of that balance, which will initially be created in a current account, wishes the balance to be in a cash ISA account, the bank will debit his current
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The bank earns interest on its reserve deposits, just as it earns interest on virtually all of its other assets (apart from the small amount of vault cash it holds)
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The word cash in cash ISA refers to what the customer holds, which is a bank deposit, commonly referred to as ‘cash’. It has nothing to do with the assets the bank holds. But if the bank holds some cash, that will mainly be a call deposit the bank holds at the central bank
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OK. ……
I really have no idea what point you are trying to make here
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No
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balance doesn't actually go anywhere. It's created when a loan is granted, or when the Treasury spends, and the loan that is extended, or the reserves created by govt deficit spending is an asset of the bank and the deposit is a liability of the bank. The bank cannot do anything with that deposit.
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most cash ISAs are deposits at banks and building socs. Such deposits are mainly created by banks and building socs extending credit or by the govt deficit spending. Once created as a balance in a current account, the account holder might choose to move the balance into a cash ISA account. The
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the word cash in cash ISA is a description off your asset - a deposit at your bank, which, to you, is 'cash'.
It doesn't refer to the assets your bank holds
As a deposit holder, you don't have a claim on any specific assets of the bank, just a claim on the bank
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the 'cash' part of a cash ISA is a perfectly reasonable description of such a deposit from the point of view of the deposit holder. It tells you nothing about the assets the bank has
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building docs have assets, which are mainly customer loans and reserve balances (created when the govt deficit spends) and on the other side of the balance sheet they have mainly customer deposits and equity. The customer deposits can be current accts, savings accts or cash ISA accts.
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bank and building social deposits are created when banks and building docs extend credit, or when the govt deficit spends. The holders of the deposits thus created might choose to exchange the balance in the current account for a balance in a cash ISA account. Nothing goes anywhere.
Banks and
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credit extended by banks and building societies (including mortgage lending) creates bank and building society deposits. Not the other way around
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for one person to save by spending less than his or her income, somebody (or something) else has to be spending more than theirs.
Who (or what) should that be?
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reserve deposits that pay the bank 4.75%
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IMO, govt should offer a single account via NS&I that pays 2% tax free (to match its inflation target), with no limit on how much anyone can hold and no restriction on who can have an account
The central bank should pay the same on reserves.
And the Treasury should stop selling gilts
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he gets that, but is also concerned that the US could run out of money........
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it's always about the availability of real resources, never about 'finding the money'.
If the resources needed to build runways, houses, transmission grid etc are currently employed, they will need o be made unemployed. That's what tax is really for.
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and to think that just over a decade ago they were demolishing half finished 'ghost housing estates'. because there was not enough demand for those houses.
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more to the point, what motivates a country to want to sell abroad WITHOUT buying from abroad?
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aha, but now they'll now tell you yields are falling because the economy is weak, and that must be RR's fault so she still has to quit and Starmer still has to call a GE (because Mr Musk tells him he has to)
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apparently when yields go up, it's all RR's fault.
And when yields go down, it's because of a weak economy, which must also be RR's fault and she must resign immediately or something, and that Mr Musk says we need another election because Gilt yields go up and they go down.
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once again reinforcing the mistaken view that we are reliant on rich people's money to have nice things.
If the resources are available to provide nice things, the govt can just buy them. If resources aren't available, the govt (or Ratcliffe or Dyson) trying to buy them will cause inflation
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those low rates were 'available' because the MPC had put them there.
There's nothing to stop the rates paid on public sector liabilities being fixed at a permanent low level (0% if desired) .
Besides, if we want to upgrade public infrastructure, we can, but only if the real resources are available