"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.“


-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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