Talk:Reserve requirement/Archives/2013

Effects on money supply - typo?

The section "Effects on money supply" has this text: "The timesВ, when banks ask for reserves, the central bank obliges. Reserves therefore impose no constraint. The deposit multiplier is simply, in the words of Kydland andPrescott (1990), a myth. And because of this, private banks are almost fully in control of the money creation process." At the very least, the "B" in "timesB" seems to be extraneous but the first sentence of the quoted text seems to be poorly written and I think it would be better to have some help in fixing it than for me to just remove the "B". Can someone help? --Pseudo-Richard (talk) 12:12, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

I tried to clean it up, but it still needs a citation supporting it. The general statement is not always true depending on the size of the bank, macroeconomic conditions, political situations at the central bank and its overseers, etc. I think it has certainly become more true in the past decade than it ever has been, but we're not seeing that show up as inflation at all. EllenCT (talk) 17:04, 7 July 2013 (UTC)