In The American Conservative, Dalrymple reflects on inflation, currency debasement, and their corrosive effects on character and prudence.
Where money is no store of value, there can be no concept of enough. Just as, for Milton, the mind was its own place that could make a heaven of hell and a hell of heaven, so the inflation consequent upon the unsolidity of money can turn prudence into imprudence, and imprudence into prudence.