She is the Co-host of Money Tree Investing. Nortonrsx / Getty Images Loanable funds are a big part of how money moves through our economy, representing the availability of capital for investment.

Specifically, virtually all recent mainstream neoclassical economic research is based on the highly misleading “intermediation of loanable funds” description of banking, which dates to the 1950s and ...

Loans extended by thrift banks to the agriculture sector reached P128.7 billion in the first six months of the year, representing 154.1 percent of P83.5 billion in loanable funds.