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The English stock exchange and insurance industry were also established in coffee houses, albeit in the century prior to the American.

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There’s a long history of coffee as a social force - namely because the alternative was usually beer, and you can imagine the wild swing in a population going from beer to coffee as their recreational beverage of choice. Coffee’s been implicated in the surge of “enlightenment” thinking, as well as the development of the financial industry (and, due to the former, also has a long history of catching the ire of kings and rulers.)

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