It's only a matter of time before she's selling the next generation slap-chop in an infomercial.

Beck is easy fodder and this segment seems to be implying that gold's price is a result of illegitimate fear and not actual currency debasement worldwide. Not even Beck's massive ego can affect the price of gold. Gold began going up years ago when Greenspan lowered interest rates to 1% and blew up the real estate bubble.

http://www.kitco.com/charts/popup/au3650nyb.html

The Fed's continued policy of inflation, the arbitrary creation of dollar units at no labor or material cost, is what is making dollars less scarce relative to gold. Yes, the real estate bubble was allowed to collapse about halfway, but gold continues to rise in anticipation of the banks eventually loaning all that bailout money they received. It can't just sit on the sidelines forever, either it's retracted and we pay the piper, or it's loaned out. The problem with loaning it out is that we may lose key buyers of our debt. A bond is a promise to pay future dollars, and if we are rapidly decreasing their scarcity relative to goods, it becomes a losing proposition to buy bonds at such a low interest rate. Some of the largest purchasers of gold are foreign central banks, which are currently VASTLY underinvested in gold. China has only 1% of its reserves in gold, the rest is paper. India recently bought 200 metric tons.

I will start believing in the gold bubble crowd when I stop seeing those infomercials getting highly indebted Americans to SELL their gold for paper. You talk to the typical person the street, and they're still oblivious to what gold represents, and those that do are not buying, but selling. This is just the beginning of a huge bull run, and it's kind of hilarious to see some people calling the top over and over again. Peter Schiff wrote a funny article in 2006 about what a gold bubble would actually look like.

http://www.kitco.com/ind/Schiff/apr252006.html

>> ^Doc_M:
Forgive my ignorance but this seems like good advice. Gold seems like the investment of choice to keep your dollars worth something in the years to come. I normally hold Glen Beck in the realm of right wing craziness and don't normally support anything that he says but I don't know much about investing in commodities and he's giving a tip on how to do so with reliability. It's not like using the company he recommends will raise the price of gold to his advantage. Using ANY gold investment will do so. Though he is an asshat when it comes to generally everything, investment in gold seems like good advice and information on who is reliable over others is not in my opinion "bad advice". Gold vendors are notorious for being greedy douches when it comes to investing. Glen is a capitalist in the most extreme way and therefore, I see this as the best bet for that investment.



Except that he stated himself on his own show (via the Jon Stewart clip) that gold jumped $30 during his last show.
Plus, gold is an extremely bad investment over the past few centuries. It's rate of growth is below almost always under the rate of inflation, meaning it'd be better to invest in the underside of your mattress than in gold. The only exception has been the past few years.
I've been tempted before to invest in gold, but after talking to multiple financial advisers, they steered me clear of a classic pitfall that this guy is selling.
There's a reason the commercials for gold seem like infomercials played late at night to sap gullible suckers out of their money - because they are.

Sorry to be the one to kill the clever, they are all drunk(w/power or otherwise), pill-popping(blue or red, matrix-styley), sold-out cunts who fancy themselves representative of constituent matters-It's politics.

Compare it to a re-run cartoon that make you want to turn he channel to watch infomercials.

I want to see that wanking exercise equipment infomercial now

downvote for making the ui actions appear easy when there's no way cut and paste will ever be that intuitive. i reject the attempt to make something technical appear to be intuitive as a transparent deception, much like a cheap infomercial.

>> ^rebuilder:
Oh well, pretty much all the consumer-grade TFT TVs out there are TN panels anyway, and make everything look like DV footage.
That said, I can't help but wonder: do they actually shoot these things live? Why?


Erm.... no. not the TVs, the computer displays yes but definitely not the tellies.

Your video, Wii infomercial fail, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

>> ^Stingray:
Perfect example as to why you should not buy those stupid Wii accessories. They do nothing to improve the game, and could just kill your TV.


I couldn't agree more! I despise third-parties cashing-in like this. They are the parasites of the video games world.

Chavez is shitballs crazy, that show he runs about himself that can last "however he feels like" every week is just a long infomercial. He is the President Bush of Venezuela. Paranoid, uses protecting democracy and freedom as a reason for war. The only difference is that Chavez actually Served in the military...boosh

i am going to buy one. I was waiting for the first no bullshit infomercial, now, I will buy it.

>> ^brycewi19:
I'm getting kinda tired of this Vince Shlomi meme and subsequent parodies.


haha! You ever play TF2? There's a huge parody of him and one of the characters in that game.

reminds me of this infomercial that used to run.
The idea was to demonstrate how good some car wax was.
They burnt up the side of a car that had a 'leading brand' of wax on it, then shot the laser at a different car covered in the new wax they were trying to sell and couldn't burn it.
'cept the first car was dark, and the second car was white. .assholes.

heh, yeah, I remember old infomercials about how the testing is "Raising the Bar" for Canadian academics.

The tests themselves are pretty easy, and a nifty day off in some cases. For us in Canada..or at least, Ontario, we have grade 3 testing, which is a series of tests over 2 or 3 days, and grade 10 testing, which is a cluster of 5 exams over 1-2 days. While the grade 10s take these though, the rest of the school got the day(s) off. It was awesome.

I endorse this infomercial.