Aurel's laurels

David has almost exhausted me with an hour inveighing against "The Banks" and their "Fractional Reserve Lending". It seems the sixteenth century goldsmiths are to blame. At one point, when he claimed that some group cynically chose the acronym SOMA, because that was the drug which controlled the people in Brave new World, at that point, I said that he was being paranoid and he got more angry. Here is a picture of him fulminating against the money grubbers: