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The Secret of Oz

Year: 2009
Runtime: 104 min
Type: Movie
Genre: Documentary

Overview

It is well known in economics academia that The Wonderful Wizard of Oz written by L. Frank Baum in 1900 is loaded with powerful symbols of monetary reform which were the core of the Populist movement and the 1896 and 1900 president bid of Democrat William Jennings Bryan. The yellow brick road (gold standard), the emerald city of Oz (greenback money), even Dorothyโ€™s silver slippers (changed to ruby slippers for the movie version) were the symbol of Baumโ€™s and Bryanโ€™s belief that adding silver coinage to gold would provide much needed money to a depression-strapped, 1890s America. We believe Baumโ€™s symbols represent the only solution to relieve the growing economic hardship here in America โ€“ and the rest of the world. Practically speaking, 2009 marks the 70th anniversary of the 1939 MGM release of the The Wizard of Oz movie, so interest will be very high. Even Oz websites put up by kids get millions of hits.

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