Is It Better To Own Actual Gold In My IRA Or In An ETF?

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Suze Orman Media

Business, Investing

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🗓️ 29 January 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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On this episode of Ask KT & Suze Anything, Suze answers your questions about Roth conversions, where the best place to own gold might be and leaving property to children. Plus, Social Security benefits after an annulment and more.

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0:00.0	Hi everybody, Susio here now. What is the goal of money? The goal of money is for you to be secure.
0:06.6	And there is no better way for you to be secure than having an emergency savings account.
0:13.2	It is essential for your financial foundation. So all of you should be participating in
0:19.2	the ultimate opportunity savings account at Alliant Credit Union.
0:23.9	Go to myalliant.com to find out more and be secure.
0:36.4	January 29, 2006. Welcome everybody to the Women and Money podcast, and everybody smart enough to listen.
0:47.7	What is today? Katie. Today is a great day, Susie. It's Oprah's birthday. Happy birthday, Oprah, wherever you are. You know,
0:58.5	out of all the people in my life that if I were going to name one person that contributed the
1:04.7	most of Susie Orman becoming Susie Orman, wouldn't you say it had to be Oprah?
1:10.5	Absolutely. I mean, that's without a doubt. Susie and Oprah are like, you know, bread and butter.
1:15.2	Yeah. Want to tell everybody a secret about me and the Oprah Winfrey show and the 30 shows I did?
1:21.2	How many, because most of them were taped, right? How many did I ever see? None. But I have them all. Yeah. Matter of fact, we have every one of the shows. We have every
1:34.1	magazine she ever wrote for for Oprah. And Susie's never, ever sat down and seen herself on the Oprah Winfrey show. I don't think you've watched yourself on the
1:46.7	Susie Ormond show either. Yeah, I could probably name, she doesn't watch herself on anything.
1:50.7	Count on one hand. The number of shows that I did on CNBC. What about Larry King? You were on there
1:58.0	like 29 times. Didn't watch that once. Because it was live.
2:02.4	I know. But all the other shows were taped and everyone, everybody else was watching them,
2:07.8	and you would watch him. I'd go in the other room. Don't you think that's all strange,
2:11.5	everybody? Yes. But that is besides the point. All right. So, happy birthday. Oh, now this is the AskKT and Susie
2:21.8	Anything edition. What are you taken from me? Julie. I was going to open with Julie.
2:29.0	You're going to do it? You don't want me to do it? No, I was going to do it. That's why it was in front of
2:33.2	me. Okay, so I thought I was going to do it. That's why it was in front of me. Okay, so I thought I was
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