I especially like the historical sweep including the well-detailed comparison and contrast of the late 19th Century “gilded age” with the more recent “age of financialisation”. (We didn’t have much of a “gilded age” in Ireland, but we did have “financialisation” with a vengeance cf. O Riain, 2014).
The Privileged National Bank of the Kingdom of Serbia started operating on 2 July 1884 as an institution assigned with central banking and issuing tasks, but it was also the source of favourable lending to businesses and government, and this was the foundation of strong financial and overall economic system in Serbia.