Ron Chernow Quote
Aware of the widespread prejudice against banks, Hamilton knew he needed to set out their advantages. Echoing Adam Smith, he showed how gold and silver, if locked up in a merchant’s chest, were sterile. Deposit them in a bank, however, and these dead metals sprang to life as nurseries of national wealth, forming a credit supply several times larger than the coins heaped in the bank’s vaults.13
Ron Chernow
Aware of the widespread prejudice against banks, Hamilton knew he needed to set out their advantages. Echoing Adam Smith, he showed how gold and silver, if locked up in a merchant’s chest, were sterile. Deposit them in a bank, however, and these dead metals sprang to life as nurseries of national wealth, forming a credit supply several times larger than the coins heaped in the bank’s vaults.13
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