Loans baby. We love loans.
Private banks didn't have a central bank in the 1800s. That came later as the private banks were often failing and taking the USA into depressions too often. Rollercoaster.
Loans are moving the economy for sure and banks keep on failing even with a central bank being established.
With the central bank often bailing troubled banks out (not considering whether it's good in the long term on the economy scale). And in many countries money in the deposits of individuals is often insured to some extent too. Obviously, the situation is much better now than it was in the 19th century...
The central bank means the multiple smaller bank runs and depressions of the 19th century (1800s) will be delayed into one HUMONGOUS apocalyptic TBTF failure coming before 2024 and lasting through 2033.
We just bound ourselves together in one-for-all-and-all-for-one to delay the correction. So the correction will be one-for-all-and-all-for-one.
Have you ever tried to move a huge crowd in lockstep with zero degrees-of-freedom (in an analogy of the financial derivatives of mass destruction which have enabled debt to rise unabated to 300+% of the global GDP) as if all of their shoestrings were tied to all others? There is only one way, dead.
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expounded on degrees-of-freedom.