The Secret of Oz
2009 · 104 MIN · IMDB 8.1 · 253 VOTES · DIR. Bill Still
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 Dorothy’s silver slippers (changed to ruby slippers for the movie version) were the symbol of Baum’s and Bryan’s belief that adding silver coinage to gold would provide much needed money to a depression-strapped, 1890s America. We believe Baum’s symbols represent the only solution to relieve the growing economic hardship here in America – 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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00:50:11 ...money into the system to prevent its collapse.
00:53:17 The ABA secretary James Buel authored a letter to the members that...
00:55:52 ...however, within a few weeks of...
00:58:45 ...telling reference to England, home of the mother bank:
01:01:40 These depressions could be controlled fairly easily with...
01:04:04 ...of the money that was still in circulation was about...
01:06:37 Amazingly we have Bryan's actual voice recreating portions of his famous...
01:08:09 family to Chicago where...
01:09:26 ...to find a single instance where the common people of any land...
01:11:57 ...north america Mount McKinley was even named...
01:14:30 This was her house in Fayetteville New York
01:17:16 Now with the history of money in America laid out, let's take a...
01:19:36 ...unwillingness of the eastern goldbugs to countenance an...
01:22:01 ...extremism. But given unemployment of 18.4%...
01:24:25 The wicked witches of the west could represent the Rockefeller interest based in.
01:26:50 Uncle Henry in Kansas, she finds that the silver...
01:29:21 ...interest, and it's acting in the public interest to achieve objectives...
01:31:37 In her model money lent into the economy...
01:33:20 States can charter banks as well.
01:35:21 And that made me start thinking and I said
01:37:56 So what this all boils down to is whether america
01:40:10 As Thomas Edison told the New York Times:
01:42:27 ...system, the part you will never see anyway will change.
01:45:00 I think it will a very big dredge*, I think it will...