America’s Treasury Secretary in the Great Depression was also a titan of finance, Andrew Mellon. Mellon’s immediate conclusion in the face of the 1929 stock market panic has subsequently become notorious: “liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate… purge the rottenness out of the system.”
大萧条时期的美国财政部长梅隆也是一个金融业巨头。面对1929年的股市恐慌，梅隆最初的结论随后变得臭名昭著。他说：“清算那些劳力，清算那些股票，清算那些农民，清算那些房地产，把那些腐烂的东西清除出系统之外”。