Original sentence: According to Wikipedia, the process of creating new money and adding it to the money supply is known as debasement and is a cause of inflation.The Bretton Woods System was the first attempt to reconcile the insolvency of the U$D (caused by too many dollars for the US gold assets) by easing the dollar's ties to the gold standard.This manipulation, according to the film, is responsible for a 96% devaluation of American currency
Edited sentence: The film says that this process of creating new money and adding it to the money supply is known as "debasement" and is a cause of inflation.This manipulation, according to the film, is responsible for a 96% devaluation of American currency since it was made possible to increasingly sever the link with gold backing by the Federal Reserve Act of 1913