Secret bosses of the world? The tendency to see banks and bankers as the source of all evils (or almost all) is not a recent phenomenon. More cultivated observers than I have pointed out that, staying in our times, Bertolt Brecht wrote that “founding a bank” is a more serious crime than “breaking into a bank”; Ezra Pound cursed, in verse, naturally, what he called the Usurucracy, in other words the reign of usurers (whom Dante had already placed in hell); according to a more recent...