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Mises Daily Thursday: Understanding True Credit and False Credit

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Mises Daily Thursday by Frank Shostak: 

True credit can only expand if the stock of real savings and real wealth expands. Unfortunately, fractional reserve banking and central banks facilitate the expansion of false credit which diverts resources from true wealth producing activities.

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