[jrochkind1]

Anything can be said, but I would like to see some citation for "This situation is the basis for why creating a fundamentally different kind of banking system was so important to the first few generations of Americans" -- I have never seen any history suggesting that the American colonists were focused on intentionally creating a novel kind of banking system different from Europes because of thinking Europe's led to inequality; if that's actually a non-imaginary thing colonial leaders were doing I'm interested in reading good history on it.

The internet sometimes seems to think that making up plausible stories is a valid way of understanding what happened historically.

[piethesailorman]

I agree with your last statement, good thing I am not the internet! The question of centralised sovereign banking was one of the first great debates of American politics/economics. For sake of not going into to much depth here, I will start and end with the Bank of Amsterdam, which is considered to be the first central bank. It became insolvent in 1790 due in part of its allowance for irriationally large sums of money to be loaned to big buiness such as the East India Company(the parent comment on CB's helping those closest to the "printing" spiggot). This, even as we say to this day, leaves the big players with assets bought with those loans and poor people with nothing and potentially no job until markets revitalize. Some solutions produced in my country's history includes the free banking system of Massachusetts, with the suffolk bank, and Andrew Jacksons attempt at decentralised sovereign banking. I am not here advocating for either btw. Hopefully this gives you a short, and noncomprehensive start on A: a cause for early distrust of central banks creating monetary favoritism to big buisness and B: the Americans who wanted different solutions. I might add, the parents statement about fractional reserve banking having been considered "fraud" is a bit out there, I'm with you on that. Ill try to scrape url sources later, watching the Masters today. Cheers!