It reveals much about the neoliberal notion of freedom that they saw the most powerful threat to the freedom of individuals and to Western civilization as such in the government regulation of foreign exchange, that is, in regulations instituted in an effort to enhance economic stability and general welfare, which posed little restriction on those not engaged in international investment and trade.

Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, loc. 423