John Maynard Keynes was a champion of the elite money changers, an intelligentsia proponent of the dismal science of phoney money - a hired gun. Keynes did not get much right regarding monetary theory, however, in one of his more lucid moments he hit the mark when he stated:
"Lenin was 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."-John Maynard Keynes