- A timely warning of the potentially dire consequences when central banks hit the printing presses. My relation and friends were too stupid!. They didn't understand what inflation meant. They didn't rush to rid of their money ( That was what Jews and Germans did ). All my relations thought it would stop the next week -- and they went on thinking so. They woke up very late. They started selling their valuables because they couldn't buy food - the china from the mantelpiece, the furniture, the silver. That made them think - It made them think when the price of a set old silver spoon.