Money creation and interest

23–24 June 2012

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Thematic articles in several languages

No.	Title	Date	Words
1	Money out of thin air?	23–29 June 2012	961
2	Money multiplier	29–30 June 2012	1287
3	Unlimited money creation?	5–6 July 2012	863
4	Is interest theft?	13 and 15 July 2012	1445
5	Transformation functions of banks	18–19 July 2012	1240
6	Full reserve banking?	19 and 23 July 2012	1431
7	Monthly salary tides	25 July 2012	1638
8	Capital requirement (I)	Idea 3 August, text 21 August 2012	663
9	Capital requirement (II)	31 August – 1 September 2012	588
10	Self-funding	Idea 31 July – 1 August, text 1–3 August 2012	1465
11	Cashless funding	Ideas 5 and 20 August, text 22 August and 14–15 September 2012	1520
12	Interest and stability (I)	Ideas 28 July and 8 August, thinking and writing 17–20 and 22 August 2012	1396
13	Interest and stability (II)	Text 24–25 August 2012, expressing earlier ideas	1389
14	Interest and stability (III)	Text 22 and 26–27 September 2012, expressing earlier ideas	1173
15	Interest and stability (IV)	Text 25 August, 27–29 September and 1–2 October 2012	3297
16	What is money?	1–5 and 9–11 October 2012, ideas 25 and 27 September and 5/6 October	2097
17	Less money?	20 October 2012	553
18	Trust	20–21 October 2012	579
19	Money as debt? Money as claims!	21 and 23 October 2012	1160
20	Creating interest	1 July 2013	878
21	If banks can, why can’t we?	2 July 2013	1244
22	Central bank funding government?	31 July – 11 August 2013 (some corrections 12 and 13 August)	3371
23	Do banks relend interest?	Idea 7 August 2013, elaboration 27 October 2013, and 6–8 February 2015	2026
24	Mutual agreement	9 February 2015	461
25	Trade money	19–21 March 2015	1655
26	Your neighbour’s money	13 and 19 March 2016	1882
27	Bank buys all public debt for free?	7 and 8 April 2016	2375
28	Left or right	13 April 2016	142
29	Seigniorage (1)	27 June and 1, 2 and 4 July 2016	2200
30	Seigniorage (2)	28 June 2016	1979
31	Seven restrictions to money creation	22 May 2017	671
32	The king and the soldier	29 October 2017	1161
33	A riddle	7 July 2019	423
No.	Title	Date	Words

Miscellaneous articles, only some translated

Title	Date	Subj	Words
About MMT	3–5 May 2023	MMT	2005
Different definition, same system	1 and 2 February 2018	Ad Broere	1210
Applying double-entry bookkeeping	24 October 2017	Bibocurrency	1357
Free money for US government?	21–23, 27, 29–30 September 2017	Stanley Mulaik	4314 (including quotes)
On-lending centrally created money	8 and 10 June 2015	Positive Money	1767
Zero-coupon perpetual bonds?	May and June 2015 (final version: 6 June; details)	Positive Money	1810
Evaluating Positive Money proposals	3 and 4 March 2015	Positive Money	456
Guillotines	8 September 2013	MPE	560
Buying a house with a promise	8 September 2013	MPE	863
CMI, and then?	Idea 28 August, rough draft 29 August, finished 5 and 7 September 2013	MPE	2192
Pay with a promise?	24–28 August 2013	MPE	3519
Same document, different interpretation	1 August 2013	MPE	755
Rephrasing	20 July 2013	MPE	568
Much clearer now!	15–16 July 2013	MPE	973
Promissory obligations to each other (d)	10–11 July 2013	MPE	2438
Promissory obligations to each other (c)	30 June, 1, 9 and 10 July 2013	MPE	2561
Promissory obligations to each other (b)	30 June 2013	MPE	870
Promissory obligations to each other (a)	29 June 2013	MPE	1226
Give up commensurable consideration	19 June 2013	MPE	1827
Meanings of consideration	14, 17 and 18 June 2013	MPE	1872
Representing all value?	8–11 and 14 June 2013	MPE	2953
Interest back into circulation	1 June 2013	MPE	1379
Title	Date	Subj	Words