Tootfinder

Americans once had a coherent and clear understanding of political tyranny,
one crafted by Thomas Jefferson and updated for the industrial age by Louis Brandeis.
A concentration of power
—whether by government or banks
—was understood as autocratic and dangerous to individual liberty and democracy.
In the 1930s, people observed that the Great Depression was caused by financial concentration in the hands of a few
whose misuse of their power induced a financ…