In the economic sense, leverage is the process by which a company individual, entrepreneur or investor is able to greatly improve the return on an investment by way of the use of borrowed cash.

In 2015, our members provided £110 billion of new finance. £81 billion of this was in the form of consumer credit to help purchases ranging from vehicles to household goods and £29 billion was provided to businesses and the public sector, representing almost 32% of UK investment in machinery, gear and purchased computer software in the UK last year.

And the important players in that are not just central banks, but the whole industrial banking sector. Simply because truly, it is not like most cash claims take the form of physical notes any more. Most are information entries, binary code imprints on hard drives of computers within information centres controlled by industrial banks. The act of …