Bank Control Quotes
Attempting to defend charges that his bank and others were engaged in monopolistic practices:
The Roosevelt he was insulting was the newly elected Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The Congressman was a paranoid conspiracy theorist who believed that FDR had been put into office to become dictator of the United States by an imagined cabal of international bankers.
If there would be free competition in banking as opposed to monopolies in each area, This is the first major history of banks written in the United States. At the time, there was hardly any competition amongst banks. Each bank had a do facto or official monopoly in its area. In many communities of America, this is still true, but competition in banking has reached almost all high density areas of the country.