"It works pretty much the same way banks operate...they 'print' more money than they have on actual deposit"...... mastaflash, nothing like that has ever remotely transpired at any bank in the u.s. EVER. The FDIC is over-exposed in deposit account insurance and the Federal Reserve prints any and all money. The individual banks neither print money nor underwrite their own account insurance.
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