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So here we're talking banking, right? and we have a bank.
00:03
A bank has assets, and we've got a lot of those.
00:07
We have reserves of 50 ,000.
00:12
I'm just going to put everything in terms of thousands.
00:15
We have loans, which are 75 ,000.
00:18
We have tradable securities, right? securities means that it's tradable, of 25 ,000.
00:27
And we have property, plant, equipment, etc, etc, of 100 ,000.
00:33
And on the liability side, right, most of the money we owe is to our depositors, right? primarily, this is not a very realistic bank we've got, but we owe the depositors and then we have equity, right? it says stock shares, but that's really in a proper sense of the world should be called equity.
00:53
So the key thing here is the reserves, right? the key thing is if we have a reserve ratio of 15%, what does that mean? it means that deposits have to equal 15 % times the amount of reserves...