1.
There is no justification for subsidising money lending (i.e. banks) any more
than there is a reason to subsidise car production or any other commercial
activity.
2.
If all forms of taxpayer funded backing and subsidies for banks are removed,
then all of those funding banks (shareholders, depositors, bondholders, etc)
necessarily become shareholders, or shareholders of a sort. That is, they all
stand to lose money if a bank goes seriously wrong.
3.
That means that commercial banks are no longer a totally safe haven for money.
But there is a perfectly legitimate demand for a totally safe method of storing
money. Indeed such a method already exists in that anyone can store central bank
issued notes (e.g. $100 bills) in a safe deposit box or under their mattress.
4.
Ergo when all state backing for commercial banks is removed, the state should
at the same time set up a totally safe method of storing money: effectively let
every household and firm have an account at the central bank. That is clearly
more efficient that safe deposit boxes, and safer than mattresses.
And
that all amounts to full reserve banking.
QED.
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