It could still succeed: a government in control of a printing press should be able to debauch its own currency without needing outside help.

ECONOMIST: The world economy

As John Maynard Keynes put it so well after World War I: There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of Society than to debauch the currency.

FORBES: Fact and Comment

Thanksgiving morning, pre-debauch, I had improved to 168 pounds.

FORBES: Survival Of The Fittest