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The art of lending out money you swore was just sitting there waiting.
reserve trickBanks keep a fraction; the rest is loaned again.
ancient rootsTemples held deposits 4,000 years ago in Babylon.
the benchName comes from Italian banco, a money-changer's bench.
money madeMost money exists only as digits, never printed.
too bigSome banks are deemed too large to fail.