Both Jefferson and Adams detested people who earned a living shuffling financial paper, and when Adams launched a bitter tirade in later years against the iniquitous banking system, Jefferson agreed that the business was "an infinity of successive felonious larcenies." 9 That banks could serve any economic purpose-that they could generate prosperity that might enrich the few but also lubricate the wheels of commerce-seemed alien to both men.
( Ron Chernow )
[ Alexander Hamilton ]
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