[org.whodat]

Wrong, they can sell stock, in a real market and then write a check on the monies and/or they can ask the bank owners to increase capital.

[JasonC]

See post 19. All the banks are repaying both the treasury and the Fed. But the poster asked for a bank to pay for something *without any of it being borrowed*. Since banks have borrowings 10 times their capital, this is asking for a round square. Banks have borrowings, it is part of the definition of "bank" as a firm others deposit their own funds, with.