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Strategies & Market Trends : The Epic American Credit and Bond Bubble Laboratory

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From: bruiser989/7/2016 9:44:40 PM
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Can banking be this absurdly lucrative?

You loan me $10k at 10% simple interest for a year.

You have to take $10k from your stash.

One year later I pay you 11K. Your return on investment is 10%.

The bank loans me $10k at 10% simple interest for a year.

The bank credits $10k to my account by just typing figures into a computerized bookkeeping ledger. The bank contributes $0.00 from its stash.

A year later I pay the bank $11k. The bank's return on investment is ?
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