It is impossible not to hear in such nonsense the cocksure drumbeat of the Money Power, which has never failed to identify the public interest with its own. For 50 years after the Great Depression of the 1930’s, the Money Power was held to account by the countervailing power of government.
想要对大银行的这些自吹自擂之声充耳不闻是很困难的，因为银行家最擅长的事情就是将自身利益说成与公共利益完全一致。20世纪30年代大萧条之后的50年里，大银行一直是政府动刀的对象。最厉害的一刀便是1933年美国格拉斯-斯蒂格尔法案（Glass-Steagall Act）。