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Money … is the nerve center of the economic system. If, therefore, the state is able to gain unquestioned control over the unit of all accounts, the state will then be in a position to dominate the entire economic system, and the whole society.

— Murray Rothbard What Has Government Done to Our Money? (1980)

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