Hickory, NC News & Views | December 21, 2025 | Hickory Hound
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Hickory, NC News & Views | December 21, 2025 | Hickory Hound
Fifteen years ago, I used The Wizard of Oz to explain how money fights really work: not as “metal talk,” but as a story about who gets protected when pressure builds—and who gets told to quietly adjust. This week’s News & Views revisits those “Yellow Brick Road” essays and then runs the larger parallel: gold, silver, and the dollar as signals of trust, strain, and promises stretched over time.
Key angles inside this edition: The Hickory Hound
Why the old gold-vs-silver fight was openly political—and why today’s fight is “underground” as affordability
What gold is signaling when systems protect themselves and household purchasing power erodes
Why silver keeps resurfacing when the working economy is under stress (and why it’s never treated as “neutral”)
The slow-drift reality: nothing “snaps,” but the terms change anyway
A clean read on what this means for normal people trying to save, plan, and stay stable
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