The Psychology Behind the Dollar System
By Wendy Williamson
WendyWilliamson.com
June 29, 2026
"The difficulty lies not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones." - John Maynard Keynes
If you have a 401(k), buy gas, or wonder why your grocery and utility bills keep rising, look no further than the invisible machine running our global economy.
For most of the 20th century, that machine ran on gold.