"If banks can borrow money from the federal reserve at 3%, why cant we? Why do we have to go through a money changer to get access to capital? In all honesty for profit banking should be outlawed like for profit hospitals were before Nixon. Usury is the problem in our society. Not capitalism."

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Yes, Jews basically banned usury and put it into mosaic law to annul debts as jubilees. The Book of Jubilees has all the information on this, but the Catholic Church took it out of the canon.

The Jews were the first to break this commandment, with the stipulation that interest could be charged on loans to goyim (non-jews).

Yes, and no. Sumer did this before and in neobabylonia. But it was the Hillel sect of Judaism that allowed for usury to expand and progress. Jesus was very much against this.

I agree that the progressive of usury explains a lot of world history.