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JPMorgan Chase warns 86 million customers they might have to start paying for their bank accounts (finance.yahoo.com)

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The potential charges, says Marianne Lake, CEO of consumer and community banking at JPMorgan, are a result of new regulatory rules that cap overdraft and late fees. Lake says Chase will be passing along those increased expenses to customers, which would put an end to now-free services such as checking accounts and wealth management tools. And she says she expects other banks will follow suit.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Banks don’t actually lend out people’s savings. When they create loans, they create that money out of thin air. And fractional reserve banking (A.K.A. the “money multiplier”) is a myth.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Only insofar as you would say they destroy money supply when a loan is repaid. They just create a credit and a debit that cancel out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Correct, the principal is essentially destroyed on payment. Once the loan is payed off, all the money that the bank had originally created has been destroyed.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Same with charging late fees, overdraft fees, etc. It's just all made up money.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

This is a fundamentally different thing. When you go to pay the fees they charge you, you don’t get to create that money out of thin air.