Quote Originally Posted by wufwugy View Post
the fun thing about supply and demand is that even when it looks like something is coming from nothing, it's not.
Sowell's stuff talks about this a lot. Money-changers have been a hated group since time immemorial. Middle-men as well. But it turns out that middle-men are extremely valuable to the economy, and there's a reason why the first high rise building in any 10%+ annual GDP growth city is almost always a bank.