[GeronL]

wasn’t the national bank also his really bad idea?

[Sacajaweau]

it was indeed....People were putting their money in the bank with one hand and taking it out with the other.

If he had his way...we'd have a dictator for life along with Senators for life, the states would have no rights...etc etc

And yet he was a patriot. It's the "what else was he" that should rattle the history books.

[Dalberg-Acton]

Also large public works projects to build a perpetual public debt. Owed, of course, to his masters in the banking sphere.

[Jacquerie]

It was his idea, a very good one. There was no better institution from which to pay state and continental debt and provide a uniform currency.