This is a cool analogy. Wizard of Oz (Ounces) sounds way better. That is an impressive road of gold blocks though, nice to have a stack like that.

Even the idea of the wizard behind the curtain pulling strings representing the central financial 'experts'. Half the time that is all they do is pull meaningless strings and create false confidence in the system.

Even when the gold standard was in place many believed that the greenback was not suitably backed by enough gold.

Whether the analogy is true or not, I think it is awesome. Nice post @golmatters, getting us thinking.