How is producing 10 times the amount of money you have...not printing money out of thin air?
If not out of thin air, where does the new money come from?
It is underwritten by 3rd party debt - either sovereign, corporate or person debt.
A bank cannot simply create money "out of thin air".. They need to get an economically productive entity to underwrite it / "back" it with a promise of future productivity.
This makes no logical sense (although it is taught like this in universities). Money is supposed to represent production. It can only originate from production. Creating money to "represent" debt or future production is literally creating money "out of nothing". This is the problem with the current system, it is backwards and only exists because it allows governments and corporations unlimited power to steal from producers.
Real money can only be created out of production and only after this has happened, can it be borrowed to create debt, not the other way around. The current monetary system is not real money, it is a house of cards built on decades of mind-fucking the public. There will be an awakening.
The only justification could be that the process described liquefies assets into money that can be used to fund buildup of means of future production. In theory it’s a zero sum game with the money lent out returning at some point as repayment and thus disappearing from existence.
In practice, however, the loans in general are not repaid but rolled over into eternity at increasingly higher sums. This supported by continuously lowering interest rates artificially suppressed by central forces.
A perpetual debt machine with no intention of ever paying back the full outstanding debt.
A monster is what we have created.