This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.
Carroll Quigley
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- In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures.
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