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They are wrong. This was not about fractional vs full server banking. They are also wrong about what how fractional reserve banking works. The Swiss initiative (that I voted on an rejected) was only that the central bank would have to full control, it did not force 100% reserve banking.

Woods and Murphy follow the Rothbardian school and that is a minority even among Austrian Economists. If you want to see a more modern Austrian-Chicago critic on that, I would recommend George Selgin.



Are you saying that individual Swiss banks are currently free to make up their own reserve requirements? In the American system, as I understand it, the Federal Reserve (the US central bank) sets reserve requirements which the banks must follow. I thought this was how the Swiss system worked also.

If the Swiss central bank already sets reserve requirements, what would this proposal do?


> Are you saying that individual Swiss banks are currently free to make up their own reserve requirements?

No, but bank lending is not made from customer deposits or bank reserves - lending occurs first, then reserve requirements are met afterwards. See for instance this research paper from Standard & Poor's:

Repeat After Me: Banks Cannot And Do Not "Lend Out" Reserves

https://www.kreditopferhilfe.net/docs/S_and_P__Repeat_After_...


Eliminate the reserve requirements, which would no longer be required because banks would not hold client’s on-demand deposits on their balance sheets at all. They would be held on the central bank’s balance sheet.




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