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Is That Where Your Shift Key Went Too?
who was it that used to argue about the role of banking in the US, jefferson and hamilton?
Thomas Jefferson. Our AE Quote of the Week, Part II, goes to Thomas Jefferson - yes, that Thomas Jefferson - who had this to say in 1802: "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." Thanks to longtime AE reader Roger Clarke for passing this quote along.