About the book: year / "Money in our time is a huge power. The stock exchange game, financial companies, stocks and bonds, speculation in all kinds of forms, quick enrichments and no less rapid collapses that this speculation entails, all this is being introduced into modern life. Speculators have a great influence on the fate of society, on morals and politics. But this omnipotence of money is not news at all, just like nothing is new under the sun. It existed in ancient Rome, where two thousand years ago numerous financial societies flourished, which regularly exploited peoples and provinces for the benefit of their shareholders…»