Hugh Hendry advocates abolishing fractional-reserve banking?

This was hedge fund man­ager Hugh Hendry on Dis­patches tonight. Is he really advoc­at­ing the abol­ish­ment of fractional-reserve bank­ing, a sys­tem where banks cre­ate money out of thin air and are required to keep only a frac­tion of their depos­its in reserve. Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to see this unbe­liev­able scam ter­min­ated, but does Hugh Hendry under­stand how anti-establishment such a sug­ges­tion is?

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  1. nangas,

    Judging by his designer specs, he’s prob­ably going more for the intel­lec­tual angle I’d say. How­ever, since he’s not from the bank­ing com­munity, (he’s a hedge fund man­ager remem­ber) its not really revolu­tion­ary is it? More a case of say­ing you stick to what you do (bor­row and lend money) and we’ll stick to what we do (make money out of thin air).

  2. Conza88,

    Hi. Is this avail­able any­where? Love to hear it.

  3. I’ve uploaded H.264 ver­sion so hope­fully you can view it now Conza. If not, I’ll be upload­ing Ogg ver­sion this even­ing. Thanks for let­ting me know.

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