The results are eye-popping and amazing, and a reminder that hardly anyone has fully come to terms with what transpired over five years. 

Most currencies in the world took a 25-35 percent haircut, Far East excepted.

That's a technical description that obscures what actually happened. The measures by which most people in the world hold the liquid part of their worldly possessions – the money they earned through hard work and saving – was robbed by a quarter and more.