Quote from a book written in 1940 about Big Banking

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His business might be defined as the lending of money exclusively to people who have no pressing need of it.  In times of stress, when everybody needs money, he strives to avoid lending to anybody, but usually makes an exception of the United States government.

Likewise, in prosperous times, he is a might liberal lender -- so liberal that years later unfriendly committees ask him what he thought he was thinking about, and he is unable to remember clearly.