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That's the way I do the history
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--it may have some other version if you look further.
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But in the United Kingdom,
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there was a movement in the early nineteenth century
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to set up savings banks which were for
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--this was an effort to democratize finance, as I would put it
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--for ordinary people to have the opportunity to make small deposits.
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It used to be that people would hide money in their house
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and it would frequently get stolen
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and it didn't earn any interest.
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So, there was a savings bank movement,
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which spread from the U.K. To the U.S. in the nineteenth century