Oddbean new post about login | logout Equity and debt instruments are going to look completely different on a fixed money supply. Almost all projects were financed with equity in the past. It was this fact that was the impetus for the formation of the federal reserve. To force people to fund with debt instead. The old system of capital investment will return when the money can’t be printed into existence.
I don’t think that is accurate. A lot of rich people who had gold reserves collateralized their gold for bank loans which were in turn invested in “guaranteed” priority debt claims on projects … which also included yields on projects. Debt (priority) claims are very attractive for numerous reason on a sound money standard.
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But that wasn’t the general trend. Society was moving to equity investments as capital. Also, more importantly, that bank was fractionally reserving their gold deposits. They created some portion of the loan out of thin air. There eventually will be no dollars to create out of thin air.