Other People's Money and How The Bankers Use It

Louis D Brandeis

Other People's Money and How The Bankers Use It
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Binker North
Country
Published
1 May 1914
Pages
108
ISBN
9781774414149

Other People’s Money and How The Bankers Use It

Louis D Brandeis

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Louis D. Brandeis was a Supreme Court Justice and a patriot. He wrote Other People’s Money and How Bankers Use It to warn the American people about the greedy bankers that control the United States and drive us into financial ruin. The book attacked the use of investment funds to promote the consolidation of various industries under the control of a small number of corporations, which Brandeis alleged were working in concert to prevent competition. Brandeis harshly criticized investment bankers who controlled large amounts of money deposited in their banks by middle-class people.

The heads of these banks, Brandeis pointed out, routinely sat on the boards of railroad companies and large industrial manufacturers of various products, and routinely directed the resources of their banks to promote the interests of their own companies. These companies, in turn, sought to maintain control of their industries by crushing small businesses and stamping out innovators who developed better products to compete against them. Brandeis supported his contentions with a discussion of the actual dollar amounts–in millions of dollars–controlled by specific banks, industries, and industrialists such as J. P. Morgan, noting that these interests had recently acquired a far larger proportion of American wealth than corporate entities had ever had before. He extensively cited testimony from a Congressional investigation performed by the Pujo Committee, named after Louisiana Representative Arsene Pujo, into self-serving and monopolistic business dealing. Chapter V of the book ( What Publicity Can Do ) contains in its opening section a well-known line that has frequently been cited in support of regulation through disclosure obligations: Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.

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