So here's is a system changer, and it seems to be catching.

With far too few of your sinister plots actually turning a profit.

Dirt road?

Now, this actually leads to a very interesting question.

Dirt road?

So just as a review, let's say I'm running some type of a bank and I tell you that I am offering 10 interest that compounds annually.

loans to this bank.

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Which is normally how we think about bank accounts.

And they're more vulnerable to job losses, subject to inflation, tightening loans from banks, appreciation of the renminbi, or decline of demand from Europe or America for the products they produce.

Central Bank is a bank that deals mainly with other banks and the government and assumes broad responsibilities in the interests of the national economy apart from the earning of profits.

And when the 1 billion came from that local bank, all the payments, the interest payments, went to the bank.

All right, so you're on the dirt road?

Mr. Bickersteth is an agreeable gentleman, but not bright.

I'm in banking. In banking? How'd you get into that?

A bank lends us money at interest.

Eventually they exhaust the power of the star, and they go galactic.

What bank?

Bank?

They used to smuggle gravel in from the yard throw it across the floor.

Out in the desert.

And this is the rate that you always hear talked about on the news, and it's essentially a target rate that the Fed wants to see banks lending money,

lending cash to each other on an overnight basis.

Banks charge higher interest on loans to risky customers.

OK, so now we're in an interesting situation.

What about the platinum thing?

His own bank?

From a bank in Burundi.

It's right before the white sign with a 3 on it, okay?

lower the interest rate for people buying and selling dollars, or I should say borrowing and lending dollars, not buying and selling.

The Federal Reserve slashed interest rates.

I wonder if it's really there?

So at some point, they give up.

So this could be a bank loan, where you literally go to the bank and say hey, I need 6 million, and they say OK, here you go, and we'll give it to you for this interest.

So in part of this negotiation process

Let's call this Bank A.

And let's say that Bank A

BANK OF VENICE...

Yes. Banking section.

Which bank?

It's a bank.

B...

Banker?

A banker?

And if this is a loan from Bank B, Bank B would have an asset called loan to Bank A.