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"The average successful banker is by no means so intelligent and resourceful a man as is the average successful business man. Yet the banker through his control of credit practically controls the average business man."

Henry Ford

Financialism, also known as Bankocracy and Trapezocracy, is a form of government where banks and other financial institutions have political power to rule.

History

• The term Bankocracy was first used in 1797 by the Scottish deputy and soldier William Fullarton, who stated that "It is Bankocracy which threatens the destruction of the social order... negotiations and peace". Subsequently, several authors and writers on the left have already used the ruling system as a derogatory term, the most notable being: Proudhon, Bakunin and Marx. It is also used in Marxist economics as a way of describing finance capitalism.

Currently, this term is used in a derogatory way by populists to describe the European Union and various financial crises, and some have used it in a derogatory way to capitalism.

• The term Trapezocracy appeared in 2011 by the Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis in his writings. The term has the same meaning as Financialism, so much so that trapezo comes from the Greek trápeza (τράπεζα) which means bank. Later, the term gained popularity in the Occupy Wall Street protests and is currently used (not a lot, but it is used) derogatory to capitalist economy and neoliberalism.

Germany

• Nazi Germany in the Hjalmar Schacht government - Nazi Germany had a lot of privatization and decentralization of the economy. In the Nazi administration, unemployment was almost extinct and Germany became a rich country, but this was not thanks to Hitler but to the economist Hjalmar Schacht.

Flag of Schachtism

• Hjalmar Schacht - Hjalmar Schacht was Nazi Germany's economic minister known to have been responsible for the economic miracle of Nazi Germany. He was Nationalist, Capitalist, Bancocratic, but unlike most Nazi ministers, he was not racist or anti-Semitic, so much so that he financed some resistances.
• Alfred Hugenberg was a German media businessman and a politician who advocated policies very similar to lebensraum, even prior to the First World War. From January to June 1933 he held the positions of the Minister of Economics and the Minister for Agriculture and Food in Hitler's first cabinet, where he promoted strong protectionist policies and called for return of Germany's overseas possessions lost after WWI. See here for details.

Personality and Behaviour

Acts like a stereotypical banker from movies and TV shows. How positive or negative depends on the writer.

How to Draw

Flag of Financialism

1. Draw a ball,
2. Fill it in with blue,
3. Draw a white line on the bottom
4. From the line, draw four vertical pillars of the same height
5. Atop the pillars, draw a triangular roof
6. Draw in the eyes, and you're done!

Color Name		HEX	RGB
	Blue	#0000FA	rgb(0, 0, 250)
	White	#FFFFFF	rgb(255, 255, 255)

Relationships

Depositors

• Corporatocracy - The reason I exist.
• Kleptocracy - Those unorganized illegalists think that breaking into a few vaults is profitable. No, it is better to monopolize banking and launder money for big gains.
• Hamiltonianism - Thanks for giving me power!
• Keynesian School - Also enjoys banks, specifically central ones.
• Helvetic Model - The best bankers on the planet!
• Neo-Ottomanism - Halkbank brings a goddamn tear to my eye.
• Hong Rengan Thought - Best socialist. Thanks for establishing banks in areas under Taiping rule.
• Hibernocracy - Some Irish guy who ended up on my board of directors.
• Crusadism - ...Dad?

No debts

• Anarcho-Capitalism - What was that about central banks?
• Islamic Theocracy - STOP SAYING THAT USURY IS HARAM!!! IT'S NECESSARY FOR BANKS TO GENERATE INCOME!!! At least you're trying to implement Sharia-compliant banks.
• Avaritionism - I hire him as a collector of debts. We both like Patrick Bateman (for different reasons), but stop attacking banks because you don't like my policies! (Marc Cheney said, that modern traders and bankers are assassins of people and governments, so...)
• Liang Wenfeng Thought - You used me in a primitive accumulation, but you want to now use this to purge me??
• Capitalist Communism - Moreira is based, but Hudson does not like me.
• State Capitalism - If you don't want to nationalise me, then we can cooperate.

Defaulted on debt

• Strasserism & National Bolshevism - Stop calling me a (((Banker)))!
• Illegalism - Stop robbing my banks dammit! I worked hard for that!
• Lawsonomy - Yet another anti-bank idiot.
• Pol Potism - Kill off the rich? That's "Killing off the banks!"
• Stalinism - I'll never forget your 1907 bank robbery, commie trash!
• Nguemaism - Did you just kill the director of your national Central Bank and steal all of its money? Also, you remind me of him.
• Reactionary Socialism - Like Islamic Theocracy, but worse.
• Jeffersonian Democracy - Wanted to get rid of me.
• Jacksonian Democracy - He tried to kill me! (But I came back!) I’m gonna ignore the fact you’re on the $20 bill though.
• Bull Moose Progressivism - You also wanted get rid of me!
• Social Credit - Your economic system is a disgrace! I mean how will you finance it all?

Further Information

Wikipedia

• Bankocracy
• Finance Capitalism
• Financialization
• Rothschild family

Gallery

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