“Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the capitalist system was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens...Lenin was certainty right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.”
John Maynard Keynes, CB FBA
British economist.
(1883 - 1946)