Talk:Float (money supply)

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There would also be value in discussing float from a micro-economic perspective.

Individuals or institutions who act as intermediaries to a financial transaction can profit from control of funds.

This stub would be more balanced if it also noted that the cost incurred by intital and final parties from loss of control of funds during the period of delay between origination and complettion of a financial transaction is offset by the profit realized by intermediaries from the use of funds under their control. Paypay, Western Union, USPO money orders, etc. can be the basis for examples of the profit motive for extending float in financial transactions.