This is one of those rare occasions when I’m reminded just how lucky I am to have a place to call home. It’s the rare time when I can truly say I’m proud of my home and my surroundings. The money I put in my bank account is the reserve for what I can afford to buy, but it’s not the reserve for the house, it’s the reserve for my future.
The reserve ratio is a stat that determines how much a bank account will be worth after a certain period of time. It does not determine whether the bank will be fully funded. The ratio isn’t required for a bank to provide a full account if it believes the customer will be able to pay the entire balance in full. It does however apply when a bank is forced to suspend a customer’s account because the customer can’t pay the entire balance.
This is one of those situations where if you take an already over-funded account at the bank and reduce the reserve ratio, the bank will feel the same way. And when I say feeling the same way, I mean their customers will feel the same way, too.
One of the reasons I think banks are over-stretched is that banks are not required by law to provide a reserve ratio of 100% – it’s usually calculated based on the customer’s ability to pay the full balance in full. Of course, I’m not sure if this is because banks are forced to provide reserves for a reason – they might as well just make up the numbers and not check their customers’ accounts.
What bank or credit union actually provides a 100% reserve ratio? How many of their customers think this is a good idea? The answer is probably many, and it is very simple. The reason banks are so under-reserved is that they are not required to. Banks are not required by law to maintain a reserve ratio of 100% because the average customer has to be able to pay the full amount in full.
Banks are required by law to maintain a 100 reserve ratio, since the law requires the customer to be able to pay the full amount in full. Banks are also required by law to make the deposit available to the customer at any time, as opposed to making it available on demand. So on your balance sheet you should have a 100 reserve ratio because you can pay the full amount in full.
So if you have a 100 reserve ratio, you can just pay in full and the balance of your account will match the balance of your account at that time. If you have a 95 reserve ratio you can make a deposit that is double the amount or even triple the amount. So the rule for a reserve ratio of 100 is that you can pay your reserve in full, and your balance in your account will match 100.
Of course, you could pay in full with a little less cash in your account, but you wouldn’t have the 100 reserve ratio you initially had. So if you have a 100 reserve ratio, you can pay $1,000 in full each week, and your account balance will match $1,000. But you have to be able to pay that in full each week.
The reason you pay a $1000 reserve each week is because that’s the amount you need to pay just to stay in the bank. You can’t pay more than that. If you have a $100,000 reserve, you can still pay $10,000 each month, but you wouldnt have the 100 reserve ratio you initially had.
This is an example of why a 100 reserve ratio would be a mistake for a bank account. A lot of people with a 100 reserve ratio would end up with a negative balance because they only paid off those 1000 a week that they could. To make up for this, people would pay a larger balance each month so they could stay in the bank.
