It's funny because I am sitting here reading John Trains classic - "the new money masters" which was published in 1989. Jim Roger's interview starts on page 1. They were masters then, and they are masters now.
That chart is primarily used by Swiss economists to explain the fiat money theory/phenomenon and how the end of the financial world is coming..
Its already been almost three decades and the financial world seems to be doing pretty well so far. And the reason is that the value of dark matter (as per link below) is not being accounted properly into the equation.