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John Kenneth Galbraith

The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.

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John Kenneth Galbraith is saying that the way banks generate money is straightforward and easy to understand, yet it feels almost unbelievable or uncomfortable to accept. This suggests that the simplicity of money creation challenges our usual expectations about how complex or mysterious financial systems should be.

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