LOL!
I hope not... it's just that it struck me as I read that chapter on WW1 and WIB and the price controls , etc.
Then the Roosevelt years after that. Looking back it it all seems orchestrated. The founding of the FRB, going off the gold standard, etc.
Although I was surprised that as a nation we were holding on to the gold standard long after many others had abandoned it at that point in time.