Even the wife of the Fed chairman, Agnes Meyer, now believed the bankers with whom her husband interacted were practically criminals: “Certainly the New York bankers have proved they are no heroes. The wealthy classes as I have learned to know them through the depression are not much to be admired. They are overcome by fear and selfishness,” she wrote in her diary. And that wasn’t all: “If the general public realized the ignorance, smallness, futility and greed of the average New York banker, I think they would certainly hang a few of them,
