It didn't it took off in the 16th century. The money-changers/usurers, have financed every war, since.
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But not in the US. We had very religious people who correctly pointed out that usury is not allowed in Christianity, and there was even a point where Jackson marched an army against the bankers and won.
The bankers took Europe because the Catholic church is a criminal racket and God is secondary to their own profits. I don't think its a coincidence that the Italian mafia and catholicism infiltrated the US in the decades prior to the federal reserve being established.
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