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Episode 295: Must Government Control Money?

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Can You Redeem Your Own Banknotes?

In Canada, banks were allowed to branch nationwide. In the US, bank chartering was traditionally a function of the state government and state governments used their prerogative to ban banks from other states. Are there any major countries that rely on free banking? To my knowledge, they're all government control currencies.

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