The amount of deposit money created matches the amount of government securities taken off the market if banks fail to make use of their new reserves resulting from their new deposits, which has been the case lately.

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It measures the amount of gold on deposit at the Fed against the total money supply.

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They are, in effect, paying for them with newly created bank reserves and perhaps a small amount of newly created deposit money.

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These cards require you to deposit an amount of money usually equal to the credit limit into a special savings account that the bank can collect any missed payments from.

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Sometimes these plasma clouds are directed at Earth, and can deposit a large amount of energy into the planet's magnetosphere.

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Instead, banks have accumulated reserves far in excess of the amount required to back their deposit liabilities.

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Typically, the additional deposit is 50% of the amount spent above 13%.

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Under the "Lend A Hand" scheme, house buyers put down a deposit of 5% and the council guarantees a further 20% of the mortgage amount.

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