Michael Reiss

Michael Reiss

Dr Michael Reiss is the author of the wonderful book What Went Wrong with Economics. The book uncovers many such flaws and shows how the resulting bad economic theories have devastating consequences. Dr Reiss shows how, with more realistic assumptions, economics, and our economic system, can be rescued.

Website URL: http://www.fullreservebanking.com

More than 99% of the general public think that money works as a system of tokens (real or electronic) that get passed from person to person as trade is carried out. 

Some people, when presented information about how our monetary system works, become concerned about where the supply of money for interest payments could possibly come from. 

The money paradox

Wednesday, 22 February 2012 10:00
Since starting to look into the nature of our monetary system, there is one particular argument I have heard played out time and time again: On one side we have: “Banks can create money out of nothing. They do not need to have somebody’s savings in hand in order to make a loan”. On the other side we have: “Banking regulations dictate that banks are only allowed to lend out a fraction of their depositors money”.

Our Monetary System

Wednesday, 02 November 2011 15:55
Most people assume that the government directly controls the amount of money in the economy.

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