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Money multiplier

How many dollars of deposits the banking system can create from each dollar of new reserves: at most . With a 10 percent reserve ratio, 100 dollars of new reserves can become up to 1,000 dollars of deposits. In practice it is smaller, because banks hold extra reserves and people hold cash.

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