debauchment

All those billions pumped into moribund economies in Britain and the US and Japan; all those many-phased quantitative-easing programmes by central banks; the general debauchment of currencies, so that the pound is now worth around 20% less than it was when RBS and Lloyds-HBOS fell over – an argument wheeled out over and over is that all this semi-Keynesian loucheness is bound to produce the mother of all inflationary booms, and the best insurance against that is gold.

There we see of the havoc, the cruelty, the debauchment, the paralysis, the leprosy, the infernal fascination of sin.

It had also regulated trade with Indians not residing within the jurisdiction of a State, and, by scattering its troops along the border, was attempting to protect the savage from the encroachments and debauchment of the white man, as well as to shield the white man from the barbarity of the savage.

There is no sadder reading than the many pleas addressed by the Indian chiefs to various officials to stop the importation of liquor into their country, alleging the debauchment of their young men and warning the white man, with whom they desired to be friends, that in an Indian drink and blood lust quickly combined.