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If we complete the analogy with the car, cars being money, the lender wants (say) 10% more car to be returned, but since you are not allowed to build cars (that would be counterfeinting) you have to get some 0.1 car to return as interest and these 0.1 cars has to come from a car lender.

Right?

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by A swedish kind of death on Fri May 11th, 2007 at 12:15:11 PM EST
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