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> Breaking the government monopoly on currency threatens everything about him

This is naive. Breaking governments’ holds on currency would be supremely lucrative for bankers. See the American free banking era.

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This is also naive. The federal reserve is a joint org of government and banks. There is no separation of government and banking power when it comes to currency in the US. In 1913, they agreed to control it together (run by the banks, oversight by federal government).

These two are not mutually exclusive

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