"What if the bank runs out of money?"

[WilliamPitt]

Truth in a Monopoly box.

[MichaelSoE]

1. It's magic.

[2pooped2pop]

2. maybe they can borrow from the CEO pay? n/t

[hunter]

5. Not borrow, tax.

Maybe 90% of anything over a million dollars or twenty times the minimum wage, whichever number is lower.

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. My god..you are right.

I had forgotten all about that "rule" in Monopoly.

[cthulu2016]

4. There's nothing weird about that. Are you suggesting the gold standard for Monopoly?

Of course the money supply is not limited to the amount of currency in circulation at the beginning of time.

In Monopoly the "bank" more closely represents the federal government than a private bank.

Are people supposed to just stop receiving their payments when they pass Go? No, the central bank honors that commitment by the board-game equivalent of deficit spending... just like in the real world.

And of course the money supply has to grow as properties are developed, creating wealth in the system.

The objection is, though meant well and primarily comic, economically right-wing in nature.