Whether we like it or not mankind now has a completely integrated international financial and informational marketplace capable of moving money and ideas to any place on this planet in minutes.
Information about money has become almost as important as money itself. The competitive advantage of the banks used to be that they knew more about their customers than anyone else. Now... that knowledge can be had at the push of a button. The guy with the competitive advantage is the one with the best technology.
It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human