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RENTAL INCOME OF PERSONS: The official item in the National Income and Product Accounts maintained by the Bureau of Economic Analysis measuring rent earned by the household sector for supplying land and related services. This is one of five official factor payments making up national income. The other four are compensation of employees, net interest, corporate profits, and proprietors' income. Rental income of persons is typically the smallest of the five factor payment categories, usually less than 5% of national income.

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Lesson 18: Banking | Unit 3: Reserve Banking Page: 17 of 24

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  • The concept of fractional-reserve banking, which implies that deposits are used for loans and that banks must keep reserves to back deposits.
  • The three types of reserves:
    • Legal reserves, which are vault cash and deposits with the Federal Reserve.
    • Required reserves, which are the vault cash and deposits with the Federal Reserve that regulators say a bank must keep for daily transactions.
    • Excess reserves, which are any legal reserves over and above required reserves.
  • That banking sort of evolved from the goldsmithing profession.
  • How Fred stumbled upon the depository function of modern banks.
  • How Fred discovered the lending function of modern banks.
  • How Fred discovered modern fractional-reserve banking.

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LEGAL RESERVES

The combination of vault cash and Federal Reserve deposits that banks can legally use to satisfy government reserve requirements. Legal reserves, which can also be considered total reserves, are divided between require reserves and excess reserves. Required reserves are used to back up deposits and process daily transactions, while excess reserves are then available for interest-paying loans.

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