The Wizard of Oz

The mind-blowing lesson on inflation behind the story you love.

• “I've got all the money I'll ever need,

• if I die by four o'clock.”

• Henny Youngman (1906-1998)

“The silver is mine, and the gold is mine,” declares the LORD Almighty - Haggai 2:8

Dorothy’s slippers in Oz were silver.

I remember hearing my mother reading L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz aloud as a child.

Maybe you’ve seen the 1939 classic film version, starring Judy Garland. or its musical prequel, the smash hit Wicked. Oklahoman Kristen Chenowith played Glinda, the Good Witch of the South when Wicked made its Broadway debut in 2003.

The differences between Baum’s book, written in 1900, and its later film and Broadway versions may seem minor, but they’re not.

Silver Slippers, Not Ruby