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How Japan’s Monetary Past Foreshadows America’s CBDC Future

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Richard L. Johnson
Jul 30, 2025
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“Give me control of a nation’s money supply, and I care not who makes its laws. - Attributed to Mayer Amschel Rothschild

In the shadows of parliaments and presidencies, beyond ballots and campaign slogans, lies a quieter but deeper power: the power to create credit. This is not the power to tax or spend, it is the power to conjure capital itself, to dete…

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