The course of the financial crisis from 2008 to 2017 is explained as a bundle of mortgage, investor, banking, and euro crises. An unchecked production of worthless claims led to instability in the financial markets, concentration of power, and impoverishment. This is not new. The curse of devaluation has always accompanied money. History and mechanisms were explained in the first volume of the trilogy "Money" (2017). However, as the third volume has outlined, there has always been the possibility for the state to protect the economy from the value illusion of self-abandoned money within legal limits. Two prohibitions dominated the successful interventions: the prohibition of usury and the prohibition of gambling. Although they may seem technically outdated in the neoliberal view of a risk society, their meaning and purpose are more relevant today than ever. Newly formulated and coordinated to the current context.