Frenzied Finance

It is a business book. There will be set down in this book, in as simple and direct a fashion as I can write it, the story of Amalgamated Copper and of the 'System' of which it is the most flagrant example. This 'System' is a process or a device for the incubation of wealth from the people's savings in the banks, trust, and insurance companies, and the public funds. Through its workings during the last twenty years there has grown up in this country a set of colossal corporations in which unmeasured success and continued immunity from punishment have bred an insolent disregard of law, of common morality, and of public and private right, together with a grim determination to hold on to, at all hazards, the great possessions they have gulped or captured.