FACT CHECK · ANTISEMITIC TROPES
Claim: Jews started the banking system
FALSETHE ANSWER
Lending is recorded in Babylon about 4,000 years ago (Code of Hammurabi). Modern banking grew in Renaissance Italy: the Medici, Monte dei Paschi (1472).
SOURCE
Britannica: history of banking
britannica.com
britannica.com
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