銀行（bank）

關於銀行業的起源，諾貝爾經濟學獎得主保羅．克魯曼（Paul Krugman）寫的《面對失靈的年代：克魯曼談金融海嘯》（The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008）一書這麼寫道：

Modern banks are supposed to have originated with goldsmiths, whose primary business was making jewelry but who developed a profitable sideline as keepers of other people’s coin: since goldsmiths’shops had good safes, they provided more secure places for the wealthy to stash their cash than, say, a strongbox under the bed. (Think of Silas Marner.)