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Trade will increase trade, and money will beget money, and the trading world shall need no more to want work for their hands, but will rather want hands for their work

This is one of the greatest economic predictions ever made.

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William Paterson

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Sir William Paterson was a Scottish trader and banker. He was one of the founders of the Bank of England and was one of the main proponents of the catastrophic Darien scheme. Later he became an advocate of Union with England.

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