How Gold Became The Right-Wing Answer To Your Financial Problems

The Financial Diet

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🗓️ 31 May 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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0:00.0	Welcome to Too Good to Be True, an investigative podcast about exposing the scams, schemes, and financial cults trying to separate you from your money.
0:24.4	Well, hello, welcome back. We are back on Too Good to Be True. We got a new topic this week. I am co-host Ryan Houlihan, journalist and drag artist in New York
0:30.7	City. And I am Julia Lorenz Olson. I create two cents with PBS and I'm an accredited financial counselor.
0:38.9	So tell me what are we talking about this week?
0:40.9	What horrors are in store?
0:43.9	Well, the song that I have had running in my head the last couple of weeks is silver and gold, silver and gold.
0:52.4	Is it Christmas?
0:53.5	Are we talking about Christmas? We talking about gold. Is it Christmas? Are we talking about Christmas?
0:55.2	We talking about gold.
0:57.8	Ooh.
0:59.0	And it does say in your notes here that we will be talking about the gold standard.
1:02.9	It's appeal to the right wing and how they're using it to sell gold-based products.
1:08.0	We'll talk about gold as an investment, both the physical commodity and
1:12.0	ETFs. But before we get to all of that, let's set the tone a little bit for how our
1:17.8	culture talks about gold. Now here are the solid gold dances counting down this week's top
1:24.1	10 just for you I'm silent gold
1:29.3	gold
1:32.3	gold
1:33.3	finger
1:37.3	I ain't saying she a gold digger
1:40.3	but she ain't messing with no broken
1:43.3	Please make your way
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