The Hourly Cost of Outages. A conservative estimate from Gartner pegs the hourly cost of downtime for computer networks at $42,000, so a company that suffers from worse than average downtime of 175 hours a year can lose more than $7 million per year.verage downtime costs vary considerably across industries, from approximately $90,000 per hour in the media sector to about $6.48 million per hour for large online brokerages.
The fractional banking system is also known as the fractional reserve banking system. This system is the way that virtually all modern day banks around the world operate. In a fractional reserve banking system, banks actually only maintain a small amount of their deposited funds in reserve forms of cash and other easily liquid assets. The rest of the deposits they loan out, even though all of their deposits are allowed to be withdrawn at the customersâ demand.
The existence of the money multiplier is the outcome of fractional reserve banking, which the current banking system makes possible. In short, it is the existence of the central bank that enables banks to practice fractional reserve banking, thereby creating inflationary credit.