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The Price of Time in a World Without Interest | Edward Chancellor

Hidden Forces

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The Origins of Interest

Interest is the expectation that you should get more for something if you don't use it today. The earliest lending was most likely to do with either gray sowing in the fields or live stock loans. Even in the nineteenth century, American farmers were borrowing cattle and paying interest on calves.

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