"Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalistic System was to debauch the currency...
Max Keiser posted an outstanding history and opinion on the Hunt Brothers:
http://maxkeiser.com/2012/02/24/the-real-hunt-brothers-story/
H. L. Hunt... his many children by three wives inspired the television series Dallas:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HL_Hunt
"Goodbye Yellow Brick Road," one of the most popular records of the early 70s = pop culture telling us good bye gold standard?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgkBx8csEws
John Maynard Keynes Quote
"Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalistic System was to debauch the currency... Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million can diagnose."