Pope Pius XI
Quadragesimo Anno §106
Quadragesimo Anno: On Reconstruction of the Social Order
106 This dictatorship is being most forcibly exercised by those who, since they hold the money and completely control it, control credit also and rule the lending of money. Hence they regulate the flow, so to speak, of the life-blood whereby the entire economic system lives, and have so firmly in their grasp the soul, as it were, of economic life that no one can breathe against their will.
Source: Quadragesimo Anno (Vatican.va)