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How commercial banks create money and increase inequality

Positive Money UK · Explainer · YouTube title: Inequality: Why are the rich getting richer?
Why it's here

HN commenters mostly drop it as a reference on money creation and public banking, in threads about banks, rentier economics and monetary reform.

What it covers

A three-minute Positive Money UK explainer arguing that the commercial banking system, where banks create most money as debt, redistributes income from the bottom 90 percent to the top 10 percent through interest.