FDR's Brainiacs

"The Brain Trust has devised a number of schemes for getting money away from the fellows who accumulated it during the Golden Age of Coolidge, and some of those schemes are working. Any man who hoarded gold has now been relieved of it, any man who piled up a bank deposit sees it reduced 40 percent in value, and any man who laid in stocks and bonds or real estate is worth a great deal less than he was four years ago."