In the days of uncontrolled banking, checking deposits were held by the Medicis or the Rockefellers or their equivalent, not by the average person in the economy.

• 在银行业不受约束的年代里，只有美第奇家族和洛克菲勒家族这样的名门望族才有资格拥有支票帐户，而非泛泛的无名之辈。