Answer:
1) Suppose Ginger deposits $5,000 in cash into her checking account at the Bank of Skidoo. Show this transaction in a T-account for the Bank of Skidoo.
Reserves Checkable deposits
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5,000 5,000
2) The Bank of Skidoo has no excess reserves and is subject to a 6 percent required reserve ratio. Assume the Bank of Skidoo makes the maximum loan possible from Ginger's deposit to Thurston. Show this transaction in a new T-account for the Bank of Skidoo.
Reserves Loans
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5,000 4,700
4,700
300
3) Thurston decides to use the money he borrowed to purchase a sail boat. He writes a check for the entire loan amount to Gilligan's Seagoing Vessels, which deposits the check in its bank, the Paradise Bank of Kona, Hawaii. When the check clears, the Bank of Skidoo transfers the funds to the Paradise Bank. Show these transactions in a new T-account for the Bank of Skidoo.
Reserves Checkable deposits
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5,000 5,000
4,700 4,700
300 300
4,700
4,400
4) The maximum amounts of deposits that can be created from Ginger's initial deposit is $_____
Increase in checkable deposits = change in bank reserves / required reserves = $5,000 / 6% = $83,333.33
The maximum amounts of loans that can be created from Ginger's initial deposit is $_____
the maximum amount of loans that can be created in Ginger's bank is $4,700, but the maximum amount that loans can be created in the whole banking system = $83,333.33 - $5,000 = $78,333.33
