{"id":94925,"date":"2026-08-15T07:41:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T06:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=94925"},"modified":"2026-08-15T15:46:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T14:46:48","slug":"inforgraphic-how-banks-create-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/08\/15\/inforgraphic-how-banks-create-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Infographic: How banks create money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is another of the infographics that took time and quite a lot of effort to get right, or at least as good as I could make it:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-94926\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/How-banks-create-money-v2-550x825.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"825\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/How-banks-create-money-v2-550x825.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/How-banks-create-money-v2-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/How-banks-create-money-v2-768x1152.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/How-banks-create-money-v2-267x400.png 267w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/How-banks-create-money-v2.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I also did an experiment and created one without the sketches. The most successful of these infographics is on neoliberalism and has no illustrations. I wondered whether that was a factor in its success, or whether that was due to the subject matter.<\/p>\n<p>Might you let me have your opinion on this?<\/p>\n<div id=\"polls-494\" class=\"wp-polls\">\n\t<form id=\"polls_form_494\" class=\"wp-polls-form\" action=\"\/Blog\/index.php\" method=\"post\">\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_494_nonce\" name=\"wp-polls-nonce\" value=\"5e67abdb60\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"poll_id\" value=\"494\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Do you prefer infographics with, or without, sketch illustrations?<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"polls-494-ans\" class=\"wp-polls-ans\"><ul class=\"wp-polls-ul\">\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-2155\" name=\"poll_494\" value=\"2155\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-2155\">With<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-2156\" name=\"poll_494\" value=\"2156\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-2156\">Without<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-2157\" name=\"poll_494\" value=\"2157\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-2157\">Might we have both?<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-2158\" name=\"poll_494\" value=\"2158\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-2158\">Neither - they do not work for me<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul><p style=\"text-align: center\"><input type=\"button\" name=\"vote\" value=\"   Vote   \" class=\"Buttons\" data-poll-id=\"494\" data-poll-action=\"vote\" \/><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"#ViewPollResults\" data-poll-id=\"494\" data-poll-action=\"result\" title=\"View Results Of This Poll\">View Results<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"polls-494-loading\" class=\"wp-polls wp-polls-loading\"><span class=\"wp-polls-spinner\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span> Loading ...<\/div>\n\n<p><b>How to expand this image<\/b><\/p>\n<p>If you press CTRL or Command and Plus (+) on your keyboard, your browser should increase the size of your page every time you do this. Press CTRL or Command and the 0 (zero) key together to restore the screen to normal.<\/p>\n<p><b>How to download this image.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>If you right-click the image, you should be given the option to download it to your computer. So long as you do so without the intent to make a profit, you may do so without further permission. Commercial use requires consent. But if you just want to share it, do so with whoever and wherever you want. That is the purpose of these infographics.<br \/>\n<b>\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<b>The image library<\/b><br \/>\n<b>\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nWe have a library of these images. It is<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/downloads\/infographics\">\u00a0available here<\/a>. All downloads are free, but donations help our work.<\/p>\n<p><b>AI use<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I wrote this infographic. I used AI to spell-check it and draw the presentation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is another of the infographics that took time and quite a lot of effort to get right, or at least as good as I<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/08\/15\/inforgraphic-how-banks-create-money\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,136,204,35,240,174,224,106,223],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banking","category-city-of-london","category-economic-justice","category-economics","category-images","category-modern-monetary-theory","category-neoliberalism","category-politics","category-politics-of-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94925"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94936,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94925\/revisions\/94936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}