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Hey, and welcome back, everybody.

Glad that you're here with us for another exciting episode.

We're going to get right into it with my partner, Doug Goldstein, here in a second.

But have you ever wondered first if there were a way to capitalize on all that online chatter that millions of investors have on social media?

Well, your way is over because the same artificial intelligence techniques that some of the

world's most sophisticated hedge funds use. That's now at your fingertips and you can make

their edge your edge. It's called the Buzz Index. It's licensed to an exchange trade fund,

trading under

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degree of investor sentiment online. Head to MoneyTreepodcast.com forward slash BUZ for a link to the

buzz index and more information. We'll have more on the buzz index later, but right now, let's head to my

partner here at the Money Tree podcast, Doug Goldstein.

Okay, I'm very excited to be talking with Rich Checkin, who is the president of Asset Strategies

International. Today we're going to be talking about something that Rich is a real expert in,

which is of course my namesake, the commodity of gold. Now, Rich, you know, people talk about it all the time. There are a million

different ways of owning it, but the bottom line is, why should someone invest in gold? That's a

great question. It's often misunderstood. The main reason that we sell gold, the main reason we feel

people that own gold, is as wealth insurance.

You know, you have insurance on your home, your car, your health. What do you have for your

portfolio to protect it in bad times? And, you know, for us, gold is a store of purchasing

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