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Lysander Spooner: It is therefore capable of furnishing a hundred times as much money as we can have in coin.

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It is therefore capable of furnishing a hundred times as much money as we can have in coin.
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Lysander Spooner

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Spooner argues that real estate can provide significantly more banking capital than coins.

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