Nu hvor Emelie Turunen i Politiken i dag førte tidlig valgkamp og gik i rette mod Rothschild-dynastiet og de nålestribede banditter i habitter, er det værd at gribe historiebøgerne. For er finanskrisen og den løbske økonomi et enestående problem? Ingenlunde. Der findes mange andre støvede citater, der med årtiers forsinkelse rammer hovedet på sømmet bedre end den unge Turunen og hendes folkesocialistiske kritik af finanskrisen.
USA's liberale fader Thomas Jefferson var blandt de største kritikere af bankvæsenet:
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."
— Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
"The central bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the Principles and form of our Constitution. I am an Enemy to all banks discounting bills or notes for anything but Coin. If the American People allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the People of all their Property until their Children will wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered."
— Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
Og et citat fra den industrielle revolution:
"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and money system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."
— Henry Ford (1863-1947)
Det er svært ikke at følge Henry Fords opfordring, når man hører Alan Greenspan, der som en dårligt klædt bartender hældte billig sprut på Wall Street med ultra lave renter, mens han var Federal Reserve-chef i perioden 1987-2006, fremføre sit seneste råd til verdens største, men nu også højt gældsatte økonomi:
"The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that."
— Alan Greenspan i 2011
