the S&L's were not killed they committed suicide and the bailout costs led to the deregulation. Also around the same time banks which dont know shit about insurance and insurers who dont know shit about banking were bitching to get into each others bailiwicks. More deregulation
his facts about the gold standard and money flight is quite correct and happened also in the eighties when we sold corporate america to the arabs and japanese and bought it all back at a huge discount later with chinese dollars.
His conclusions in the end are quite good. Not a be all end all but a great place to start.