Re: Quotation of the day

On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 04:43:05 +0000, Eeyore
<rabbitsfriendsandrelations@xxxxxxxxxxx> Gave us:



John Fields wrote:

John Larkin wrote:

Banks don't *create* wealth, unless the loan facilitates something truly
efficient and
productive.
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Nonsense. They create wealth by charging interest.

Bollocks !

You *don't* create wealth that way. It's no different to privatised taxation.

Banks *do not* provide an output of greater value than the input, i.e. they do
not generate wealth.

That's economics 101 !


That must be what a stock taking an artificial dive is for!
Somebody gets rich on the money that we KNOW just didn't evaporate
into thin air, and a bunch of people lose that money. For them, it
did merely evaporate.
.

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