You know the 401(k)'s and IRA's are already in play, don't you? His pseudopodia are already feeling and oozing their way toward them.
I'm morally sure FDR's conscription of gold -- that's what it really was -- in 1933 had something to do with people's unwillingness to invest: they knew that someone hostile to their property was sitting in the White House.
The Confederates began conscribing gold only in 1865, as a measure of terminal desperation (thus Gen. Longstreet in his memoirs), which gives you an idea of the gratuitousness of FDR's gold grab.
We are getting really, really close LG...