You should have listened to Thomas Jefferson...

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. How's your dollar doing? How much did gas go up in your locality today? Five cents over night for me. How well is your Dollar standing? I told you so.