Duh.
It’s been years, but I read the biography of William Boyce Thompson, who had gotten rich as an owner of copper mines. He was a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 1914 to 1919 and was twice (1916 and 1920) a delegate to the Republican National Convention. He quit the mining business and had a seat on the New York Stock Exchange. He reportedly said he was going to New York to, “shear the sheep”.
I was reading about his involvement with the Red Cross mission to Russia. This was a means for Wall Street to finance the Bolsheviks.