OK, so I finished it. A thoroughly researched but not well presented work. Hence, it resulted in a search for trees in the forest. Not enough was made of the connections between industrialists gaming the system and the Reichbank. The explanation as ignorance, ideology, or stupidity, just doesn't wash. Such a mechanic can only go so long before the people running it understand what is happening. After that responsibility becomes culpable.
It did teach me to be more aware of the warning signs that the system is about to go unstable. Yet what to do when the dollar loses its reserve currency status isn't any clearer than it is now. Somehow, in an era in which nearly every transaction is traceable, I don't think a flight to gold will work.