Excerpt from Billions for Bankers, page 9

... the Bankers who control the money at the top are able
 to approve or disapprove large loans to large and successful corporations 
to the extent that refusal of a loan will bring about a reduction in the 
price that that Corporation's stock sells for on the market.

 After depressing the price, the Bankers' agents buy large blocks of the 
company's stock, after which the sometimes multi-million dollar loan is 
approved, the stock rises, and is then sold for a profit. In this manner 
billions of dollars are made with which to buy more stock.
 
. . . 

 Using this method since 1913, the Bankers and their agents have purchased 
secret or open control of almost every large corporation in America. Using 
that control, they then force the corporations to borrow huge sums from 
their banks so that corporate earnings are siphoned off in the form of 
interest to the banks.  This leaves little as actual "profits" which can 
be paid as dividends and explains why stock prices are so depressed, while 
the banks reap billions in interest from corporate loans. In effect,  the 
bankers get almost all of the profits, while individual stockholders are 
left holding the bag.