The Silver Bear Cafe

The Silver Bear Cafe: "Editors note: This forward is taken from my essay, Boiling Frogs. In that essay, I attempt to explore the history of the Dark Side prior to the seventeenth century. Among the vilest of the Dark Side (in my humble opinion) are the Money Changers. The Money Changers have always been the members of society that create, exchange and manipulate the quantity of money. I'm not talking about the hard working prospectors and miners, through whose toil the quantity of gold and silver was increased, but rather a group of imbalanced predators who employed dishonesty and deceit to ply their trades. During the 15th and 16th centuries, the Money Changers took the form of goldsmiths."