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"When you can borrow money for nothing, and lend it back to the government risk-free for a few percentage points, you can COIN MONEY. And the banks are doing that. According to IRA, the "net interest margin" made by US banks in the first six months of this year is $211 Billion. Nice!"

This is going on year in year out, draining the economy. The largest expense of big banks is compensation. They simply pay themselves large amounts.

The largest amount of money is taken by people that do nothing for it, paracitising the economy, draining your wallet.