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Correlation does not imply causation. What we are looking for here are causal links to explain the correlation, a strong correlation between phenomena A and phenomena B might not mean A causes B or B causes A, it could mean there is a phenomena C which causes both A and B and these phenomenom aren't going to be the only factors at play right here. In this case the fact that in the 19th century the US was pretty much a 3rd world country and would have suffered from all the poverty, crime, corruption and political instability such countries experience today, not the only factor but certainly a major factor for obvious reasons, certainly far more influential than whether the US had a state bank or not.