Published in 2001, during the dotcom crash, but well before the 2007-2008 financial crisis and more than another decade before Covid, the book is eerily accurate on the problems that have accumulated due to abandoning hard money; in this case gold. A lot of the characteristics of gold apply to Bitcoin, with Bitcoin being a second chance for people to have hard money which is applicable to the digital age. Of particular interest in the book is how the Swiss blindly followed the dictates of the fiat governments and voluntarily gave up their special status as the last great holdout with a strong currency.