Behold a Pale Horse ..... Recommended reading https://voat.co/v/QRV/3895961 There is one caveat I would like to add:  Moving in by financing the kings interests, like a war, these funds needed to be repaid.  Example: The Hanseatic league even went so far as taking an actual crown as collateral .....That was 700/800 years ago.  Copycat-ing this process, Rothschild went further .... As kings in them days were absolutists or at least the embodiment of the state, it was easy to swap debt for a different deal: obtaining the power over money creation.  As expressed nicely in these movie lines:  https://invidio.us/watch?v=bWTZKrSejU0