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Occasionally I will listen to conservative radio or watch Fox News, and something I have noticed is that there are frequent advertisements for investing in gold. I don't see or hear advertisements for this on other channels or stations, so I am curious as to why that is. Also, do you personally think that investing in gold is a good idea?
Occasionally I will listen to conservative radio or watch Fox News, and something I have noticed is that there are frequent advertisements for investing in gold. I don't see or hear advertisements for this on other channels or stations, so I am curious as to why that is. Also, do you personally think that investing in gold is a good idea?
Maybe because Obama and the Fed are turning paper money into - well - just paper.
My Dad bought gold for $375 an oz. twenty years ago. In his case it was worth it.
Because conservative talk radio listeners buy gold, it's pretty basic marketing.
Why are there non-stop fitness/workout program commercials on cable at 3am? Because marketing people figured out that fat people sitting around watching TV at 3am will buy workout videos and never use them. The ad space is also cheap at that time of the day.
There are a lot of ads for that just on radio, listen to the Ed Schultz radio show and he's hocking gold every day, that's his #1 sponsor. I only hear it on political radio though, that is a very good question as to why it is.
I think most of it comes down to the right wing propaganda outlets play to the most simple of human emotions with hate and fear. They are always spreading crap that the nation is going to implode, there is going to be riots in the street, mass chaos could break out at any moment etc,.They also propagate that gold is going to be the only useful commodity.
Beck was notorious for all this "the end is near!" crap, and would push his crap on his gullible viewers like his books, food insurance, and of course gold.
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