They spent enormous amounts of time and money capturing the regulators who were supposed to police them.
Dr Croft said he believed The Fear, with a theme of materialism and starting "I want to be rich and I want lots of money" captured a "certain spirit" of contemporary culture.
To the surprise of many, in 1970, standing as a Conservative candidate, the barrister Ernle Money captured the parliamentary seat at Ipswich, Suffolk, which had been held by Labour since 1938.
Early in his career, he helped to formulate the income-expenditure framework that John Maynard Keynes put forward in his 1936 book, "The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money," capturing its essential elements in a simple diagram that is still used in elementary economics classes.
As does "big money" capturing the political system.
The money captured by the TIF is effectively "off the books" from the annual public budgeting process.
On the way to the Portuguese Coast, Balchen finally made his fortune in prize money, capturing six heavily laden French West Indiamen.
He had sought to use public money to capture buzzards and destroy their nests, in order to help pheasant shoots.
But it is also why initiatives like Move Your Money now capture the public imagination – because shopping, not working, is the dominant form of life and therefore struggle.
Or will it recognise that war is the health of the state, the enemy of liberty, and the bane of humanity and stand up to the big-government Washington war machine?I'm putting my money on capture.
