This article has conclusions that someone already friendly to these ideas would accept, but completely leaving out all the details about the mechanics of how fractional reserve banking actually works and just asking the reader to accept bullet point #2 without any of the details that happened since 1 is not going to convince anybody outside the choir itself to believe anything.
No mate, you're incorrect on this. The choir now includes the heads of many central banks:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional_reserve_bankingSir Mervyn King, former Governor of the Bank of England said "Textbooks assume that money is exogenous"... "In the United Kingdom, money is endogenous"[27]
Glenn Stevens, governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, said of the "money multiplier", "most practitioners find it to be a pretty unsatisfactory description of how the monetary and credit system actually works."[28]
Lord Adair Turner, formally the UK's chief financial regulator, said "
Banks do not, as too many textbooks still suggest, take deposits of existing money from savers and lend it out to borrowers: they create credit and money ex nihilo – extending a loan to the borrower and simultaneously crediting the borrower’s money account".[29]
McLeay et al. said in the Bank of England Quarterly Bulletin: "This description of the relationship between monetary policy and money differs from the description in many introductory textbooks, where central banks determine the quantity of broad money via a ‘money multiplier’ by actively varying the quantity of reserves."[30]
Former Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada William White said "Some decades ago, the academic literature would have emphasised the importance of the reserves supplied by the central bank to the banking system, and the implications (via the money multiplier) for the growth of money and credit. Today, it is more broadly understood that no industrial country conducts policy in this way under normal circumstances." [31]
The system has broken down on two levels:
1. The reserve requirement of 10% means that banks can lend out 90% of existing money, which doesn't belong to them. As multiple rounds of such lending happens within a 12 month period, money is effectively multiplied in the economy.
2. The existence of securitisation and shadow banking has effectively reduced reserve requirements to much less than 10%. It is probably less than 2.5% once shadow banking is taken into account.
The system is now effectively creating money completely out of thin air.
https://ozziecoin.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/The-Bank-of-England-explains-how-commercial-banks-create-mon.mp4