Sunday, February 21, 2021

UK Government Spending - The Gory Details — NeilW

Precisely how Parliamentary authority to spend ends up as a payment in somebody’s bank account, including the banking transactions that occur across the Government Banking Service to make that happen....
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UK Government Spending - The Gory Details
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1 comment:

Andrew Anderson said...

The source account for these transactions is the department’s drawing account at GBS and the destination account is the payee’s account at a commercial bank. NeilW

Don't think so since you are mixing apples (fiat) with oranges (commercial bank deposits).

You might as well say that commercial banks lend out their reserves.