In celebrating the conclusion of the 1944 Bretton Woods agreement, which created the post-war world’s financial architecture, US Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau’s used his closing address to the conference to call for a more effective banking system that provided more money on cheaper terms: “The effect would be …to drive only the usurious money lenders from the temple of international finance.”
1944 年布雷顿森林协议签署，创立了战后世界金融构架，时任美国财政部长的亨利·摩根索（ Henry Morgenthau ）在布雷顿森林会议的闭幕演讲上呼吁，建立一个更有效的银行体系，以更优惠的条件提供信贷：“其效果将是， ...... 只把高利贷者逐出国际金融的圣殿。”