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Have you been blind, all these years, to the existence, or the effects, of this monopoly of money?
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “Have you been blind, all these years, to the existence, or the effects, of this monopoly of money?”
Editor's note · Context
Spooner questions whether lawmakers have recognized the detrimental effects of monetary monopoly.
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