From: "Jessop Sutton" "Depositor No. 10 having happily obtained his overdraft, pays it out to his > employees in wages and salaries. These wages and salaries, TOGETHER WITH > THE BANKERS INTEREST, all go into costs. All costs go into the price the > public pays for its goods, and consequently, when depositor No. 10 repays > his banker with 102 pounds obtained from the public in exchange for his > goods, and THE BANKER, AFTER PLACING 2 POUNDS, ORIGINALLY CREATED BY > HIMSELF, TO HIS PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT, sets the 100 pounds received > against the phantom credit previously created, and cancels both of them, > there are 100 pounds worth more goods in the world which are > immobilized--of which no one, not even the banker, except potentially, has > the money equivalent." =============================== But "Depositor No. 10" only received the wherewithal to repay his loan from other parties who purchased his goods, possibly with money originally created as loans by some banks somewhere and which still have to be repaid. Is this not so? Also "depositor No. 10 repays his banker with 102 pounds obtained from the public in exchange for his goods...there are 100 pounds worth more goods in the world which are immobilized..." Has the system not removed the goods from the world through the process of consumption? Jessop. -