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>   (email exchange)
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>   On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Eileen wrote:
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>   Greenspan comments from last night. Of course, he hasn’t said that loans create deposits,
>   but he’s finally acknowledging excess reserves. Reported by BBG TV:
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>   “If you add to excess reserves and they just sit there, you’ve merely gone through an
>   interesting bookkeeping calculation. It has no, I mean zero, economic effect. You need
>   commercial bank A to lend to steel company B.”
>   

very good!