Yeah, Joe Six-Pack loves the story in the New Testament about Jesus breaking up the moneylenders in the temple, and still extrapolates to presume that all Jews are bankers or Hollywood producers. It's still what happens in regions where the Jewish communities are few and far between and most folks don't like to drive an hour or more to temple so that means a lot of small towns with no Jewish residents at all. It's sort of a subliminable thing, but yes, that association of Jews with lending is, sadly, still there.
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