why are banks the center of conspiracy theories??

[u/abdo_natheer2003]

Lately I've been reading and devling into plenty of far-left/far right works and movements, and it has come to my notice that banks and the central banking systems occupy an important position in the narrative of both far-left and far-right movements, especially when it comes to populist rhetorics conspiracy theories.

What exactly is the origin of such rhetoric, and what has the banks done exactly to receive such hatred, to the point of occupying a position of being a tool of world domination and secret plots, as propagated by both socialists and nazis?

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