[JMS]

Oddly enough, there’s nothing about banks in the Declaration of Independence which lays out the grievances of the colonies. The author of the article forgot about one issue that was absolutely detested by the people of the colonies - The quartering of troops in homes.

[21twelve]

They laid out all their reasons in the Declaration - doesn’t seem like a huge mystery to me.

It is amazing how many of those items in the list are still present (and worse?) today.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

The author of the article forgot about one issue that was absolutely detested by the people of the colonies - The quartering of troops in homes.

So important we put in the Bill of Rights.

This was a way of breaking political opponents and people that you just did not like.

Now days they use regulations in the same way.

[BroJoeK]

JMS; "Oddly enough, there’s nothing about banks in the Declaration of Independence which lays out the grievances of the colonies."

If you try to read between the DOI's lines here's as close as we get to a possible reference.
It's number 21 in a list of 27 grievances:

"For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:"

"Abolishing our most valuable laws" could include banks & money, or not, but even if, it shows pretty clearly the relative importance of such matters in our Founders overall list of issues.
They were far more concerned with basic self-government and respect:

1. "He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance."

2. "He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
   He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation."

Sure, in the overall scheme of things, banking issues no doubt mattered to some, but were not the major focus of our Founders in 1776.