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The true order of events shows that orthodoxy clearly has reversed the process through which investment is funded. Banks do not begin as intermediaries which accept deposits of 'savers' and then make loans to 'investors', for this would assume that the public has already developed the 'banking habit'. This habit is the end result of public experience with short term bank liabilities which have been created as banks extend short term credit to finance working capital expenses.

L. Randall Wray

A sovereign government's budget is not like the budget of a household or firm. Governments issue the currency, whereas households and firms use the currency. As the chartalist, or modern money approach, explains, modern governments actually spend by crediting bank accounts. It really just amounts to a keystroke, pushing a key on a computer that generates an entry on someone's balance sheet. Government can never run out of these keystrokes.

L. Randall Wray

It has long been speculated that money predates writing because the earliest examples of writing appear to be records of monetary debts—meaning that the closely intertwined chronology of the development of writing and money will make it impossible to find a written history.

L. Randall Wray

L. Randall Wray

L. Randall Wray

Born: June 19, 1953 (age 73)

Bio: Larry Randall Wray is professor of Economics at the University of Missouri Kansas City in Kansas City, Missouri, USA, whose faculty he joined in August 1999.

Known for:

Understanding modern money (1998)
Money and credit in capitalist economies (1990)

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