Fractional reserve banking is nothing more than another name for insolvency
A bank is insolvent when it has debts exceeding its assets. It may be able to settle debts as they fall due (it is not cash flow insolvent) but it cannot settle all outstanding debts, even in liquidation.
John Locke, Second Treatise of Government: "No body could think himself injured by the drinking of another man, though he took a good draught, who had a whole river of the same water left him to quench his thirst."
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