Banking 8: Reserve Ratios

Banking 8: Reserve Ratios

How haven mandate extent how most lending the bank can do.


25 Responses to 'Banking 8: Reserve Ratios'

  1. BMendenhall84 - December 17th, 2009 at 11:40 am

    ok, true but if you have to re-explain what the man says then where does that lead? If one cant understand 10, dont try to explain 100…. i find what he stated 100% clear and shouldnt be overlooked or restated… it was precise and accurate…dont try to change his words becuase someone doesnt understand why the difference between represented value is and actual value

  2. high5flyer - December 17th, 2009 at 11:40 am

    When he keeps saying “these people” (customers), I could see how the student might get that confused, thats all. Good vid anyways.

  3. high5flyer - December 17th, 2009 at 11:40 am

    I don’t care about his “fake situation”. In real life customers are going to have different amounts of deposits so its not about the % of customers but the % of deposits that are taken out at a given time. W

  4. high5flyer - December 17th, 2009 at 11:40 am

    I agree with what you said. The 7:45 mark is what I was referring to. He says, “if no more than 20% of ‘these people’ (customers) don’t demand their money back, the bank is going to have liquidity.” I know what he was talking about & he definitely knows what he is talking about, but the the novice might not. I was just clarifying it for anyone watching the vid & reading the responses.

  5. BMendenhall84 - December 17th, 2009 at 11:40 am

    its not a ten fold increase…. 2 fold is 10 x’s 10= 100 3 fold is 10x10x10 10 fold is 10 x10, ten times…

  6. BMendenhall84 - December 17th, 2009 at 11:40 am

    never stated it was 80% of customers. he states 80% of value being removed. he states the reserve ratio is gold over demand. not gold over customers. it doesnt matter if 1 person comes or 9000… its based on demand. which he clearly states. Im not sure why you think he means customers. in his fake situation, you see person a respresents x value which is why he states customers. but he is referring to the value behind that individual

  7. Evulmeh - December 17th, 2009 at 11:40 am

    Not really. A bank that would use a healthy fractional reserve of, let’s say 20%, can still be hurt by a bankrun on other banks.

    If other banks start to get a bank run, public might fail to trust the entire banking system, and a run can begin on banks that are very responsible.

  8. Evulmeh - December 17th, 2009 at 11:40 am

    checking accounts are loans from people to the bank.

  9. trotskij4 - December 17th, 2009 at 11:40 am

    In reality the growth should be 10 ->> 100 = 1000%
    because you start from 10 and you should arrive to 100, that meens 10fold increase :) !
    long live GDP growth……

  10. high5flyer - December 17th, 2009 at 11:40 am

    In this example the Reserve Ratio is 20%Having a bank run is not a question of the percentage of customers coming in to claim their “money.” For instance, 20% of the customers could potentially be the ones with the least stake in the bank. It is more of a question of the amount of “money” being pulled out and not the amount of customers coming in to claim their “money.” I know you understand this and I am just clarifying your statement.

  11. blahdelablah - December 17th, 2009 at 11:40 am

    @khanacademy
    You said in this vid that Federal Reserve Ratio is 10%. Going back to vid 3 of this series, you say (paraphrasing) the bank’s wealth exists in the fractional reserve system as long as investments boost the economy by a sufficient amount. So as far as I can see that means the economy of a society has to grow by (100-10% =) 90% in productivity for the banking system to stay solvent in terms of real wealth. Isn’t that a hugely unrealistic risk?

  12. blahdelablah - December 17th, 2009 at 11:40 am

    @khanacademy
    You said in this vid that Federal Reserve Ratio is 10%. Going back to vid 3 of this series, you say (paraphrasing) the bank’s wealth exists in the fractional reserve system as long as investments boost the economy by a sufficient amount. So as far as I can see that means the economy of a society has to grow by (100-10% =) 90% in productivity for the banking system to stay solvent in terms of real wealth. Isn’t that a hugely unrealistic risk?

  13. caveltor - December 17th, 2009 at 11:40 am

    Sal, you say at the end that the bank has more assets than liabilities. Does not the bank have exactly the same amount of assets and liabilities? until it starts making some interest?

  14. likeriver - December 17th, 2009 at 11:40 am

    wait… at 5:05 why does the bank have to pay back a loan? I thought they were giving them out.

  15. BlindWebster - December 17th, 2009 at 11:40 am

    Bank Runs are good. Endlessly building confidence in malinvested banks is bad. Banks that are not overextended would be survive, others would fail

  16. BlindWebster - December 17th, 2009 at 11:40 am

    reload it

  17. draggeddownthehole - December 17th, 2009 at 11:40 am

    Yes, and that’s called deleveraging and it contracts the money supply. That’s what happened and boosted the demand for the US dollar.

  18. jackuy12345 - December 17th, 2009 at 11:40 am

    no if u printed too much money than the gold u got then money would be useless everything will rise and the country will fall

  19. girlinsanfrancisco - December 17th, 2009 at 11:40 am

    why are some of the videos not available anymore?

  20. antsy9000 - December 17th, 2009 at 11:40 am

    there is no gold, its all credits now. watch the fractional reserve video in this series.

  21. luke2468013579 - December 17th, 2009 at 11:40 am

    so have they printed more money than they have in gold?…thus are able to lend more than reserves?

  22. dontblamethemessenge - December 17th, 2009 at 11:40 am

    if the reserve ratio is 20 percent.
    And if some people want to remove their savings from the bank.
    In order to remain on 20 percent, must the bank get back their lendings, so they musts request people that have loans at the bank to bring it back?

  23. dontblamethemessenge - December 17th, 2009 at 11:40 am

    In fact the bank does not need a vault.
    Because it is all numbers on a computer nowadays

  24. ariesas - December 17th, 2009 at 11:40 am

    I love those, especially bank notes of SAl Bank:D

  25. pongman - December 17th, 2009 at 11:40 am

    Thank you.


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