Glitters, Doesn't Grow
Talking Real Money - Investing Talk
Don McDonald
4.5 • 811 Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:38.0 | We're talking real money. |
| 0:40.9 | Oh, there is so much lying that goes on in the financial services industry. |
| 0:45.3 | I just can't get over it. |
| 0:46.6 | The other thing that bothers me is the incredible confusion between two different, very different ways of making money. Investing and gambling. |
| 1:01.5 | They're not the same, despite the fact that a lot of people want you to believe they are. They are not. |
| 1:14.7 | And it gets very frustrating. You know, particularly today when we've got two wacky speculations, pure speculations, both being treated |
| 1:25.3 | like investments, being discussed as if they're investments, and neither of |
| 1:32.4 | which is an investment. |
| 1:34.0 | I'm talking about Bitcoin and its ilk, all the cryptocurrencies, but I'm not going to talk |
| 1:39.6 | about them today. |
| 1:40.3 | And the other one that's soaring back up to new highs is gold gold gold may glitter |
| 1:52.8 | but it doesn't grow it doesn't it never has It is a dumbest investment. Gold itself, talking about the metal or the futures contracts, or anything that is betting on the price of the metal. Can you make money in the gold business? Well, yes. Mine it, smelt it, print it into coins, make it into jewelry. |
| 2:29.6 | Yeah, you can make money with gold. Gold miners have made money for years i'm from Colorado downtown |
| 2:37.2 | Denver the you know the streets were lined with gold and silver for a while with all these people who |
| 2:42.2 | mined and made millions and if you want to own gold well well, own some gold stocks. |
| 2:56.7 | Wouldn't own very many, and bear in mind if you have a nicely diversified, globally diversified portfolio, like we suggest, you have gold. |
| 3:05.2 | And you have gold a better way. And you have gold in the right proportion. |
| 3:11.5 | Now, I know it almost seems like heresy to say gold is a bad investment. |
| 3:20.5 | But folks, gold is a bad investment. |
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