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To: palmer; AndyJackson
"...reserve requirements have plummeted from about 25% in the 60’s to about 6% or less today. The consequences are a less effective tool and a contribution to the large increase in overall debt..."

The fed has a bunch of different reserve requirements (feds reserve req. list here); here's one plot--

 

but they don't have that percentage that you talked about; a link would be a big help in following what you're saying, especially if you're not getting the data from the fed.  Same for when you talked about "the large increase in overall debt", whether you meant private debt, public debt, total (gov't, business, private, financial, etc.) debt...

76 posted on 12/04/2007 8:38:26 AM PST by expat_panama
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To: expat_panama
Current reserve requirements are Federal reserve requirements.
77 posted on 12/04/2007 11:51:24 AM PST by AndyJackson
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