Er zijn mensen die hun hele leven roepen dat we allemaal doodgaan. Ze hebben gelijk!
Ook op financieel gebied zijn er dat soort mensen. Beursgoeroes als Rienk Kamer, Marc Faber, Maarten Verheyen en vele anderen die constant hel en verdoemenis rondbazuinen. Ook zij hebben gelijk.
Er is altijd wel wat mis in de wereld van het geld en soms wat meer dan wat. Er zijn altijd mensen, en bedrijven, en landen die zich groter voordoen dan ze zijn. Ze geven meer uit dan ze verdienen. En je kunt er donder op zeggen dat ze uiteindelijk bij vrienden en familie op de stoep komen te staan.
Luilakken, dommeriken, Grieken, ach, wie kent ze niet.
De beursgoeroes hebben dus gelijk. Luister maar even naar de praatjesmakers maar niet te lang, is het advies van JdeW. Ze hebben namelijk maar één deuntje.
Het grote probleem met doemdenkers is dat ze wel weten wat er gaat gebeuren maar niet wanneer. Pastoors, dominees en imams weten dat u doodgaat maar niet wanneer. Goeroes voorspellen altijd dat de financiële wereld in elkaar gaat storten maar ook zij weten niet wanneer. Het kan een jaar duren, maar ook tien jaar, twintig jaar.
Kortom: ze krijgen een keer gelijk maar je hebt er geen zak aan!
Het is wel een mooi vak trouwens: beursgoeroe. Net als geestelijken hebben ze een antwoord op al uw vragen. Hun God (vzmh) is Goud! Huh, hoor ik u zeggen. Ja… goud. Je kunt het niet eten, je kunt er niet in rijden, je kunt er niet in wonen, je kunt er niets op verbouwen maar toch, het antwoord is god goud!
Eén zo’n goeroe is de Amerikaanse tv-presentator Glenn Beck in wiens geraaskal dankzij Fox News zo’n 30 procent van rechts Amerika gelooft. Hij wordt betaald door het frauduleuze goudbedrijf Goldline. Hij promoot het bedrijf schaamteloos in zijn show waar Goldline ook nog eens adverteert. Zijn truc is van alle tijden. Hij maakt domme Amerikanen bang (Barack Obama has ‘a deep seated hatred for white people’) en lokt vervolgens de arme schapen zijn kerk binnen: Goldline. Zie dit verhaal van de vrienden van drasties Crooks and Liars:

Anthony Weiner Goes After Glenn Beck’s House of Gold

Congressman Anthony Weiner is trying to put a stop to Glenn Beck and other fear mongering, primarily right wing radio show hosts from scaring the hell out of their customers and then using that fear to help their sponsor Goldline fleece them.

Rep. Weiner goes after Beck’s house of gold:

Throughout Glenn Beck’s meteoric rise to become king of all right-wing media, a once-obscure Santa Monica peddler of gold coins called Goldline International has been along for the ride. The support of Beck and other radio hosts — mainly conservatives like Mark Levin and Fred Thompson — who spend 55 minutes creating fear of an economic collapse and then five minutes telling you why coins from a company like Goldline are the only safe haven has helped Goldline become a $500 million company.
This, for example, is what 2 million TV viewers who clicked on Beck’s nightly Fox News Channel show heard on Oct. 6, 2009:
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You don’t have any gold, right? This is you. This is you. This is your savings. How much did you lose if you had any money in your 401k? Did you lose, let’s say, I don’t know, 40 percent of it? So, that’s gone. Now, did you know that the dollar has lost nearly 29 percent of its value in the last seven years? Twenty-nine percent. OK, that’s gone. Just gone.

This isn’t an advertisement, although it may sound like one. It’s the editorial content of the show, although at some point during the hour viewers are sure to see an ad for Goldline with their “800″ number prominently displayed. Meanwhile, visitors to GlennBeck.com see a big ad for Goldline, while visitors to Goldline.com can see testimonials from Beck for Goldline. It’s hard to know sometimes where Beck — who famously told his viewers to get behind “God, gold, and guns” — ends and Goldline begins.

Never mind that anxiety-drenched radio listeners never got to hear the other side of the gold coin, which is that the industry is plagued by high-pressure sales tactics as well as high commissions which mean that gold — already at a record high (although not when adjusted for inflation) — would have to rise well beyond its current highs to see a reasonable return on their investment.

Finally, a grown-up has stepped in to try to clean up this mess — Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York. Read on…

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Beck won’t devote ‘precious airtime’ to refuting Rep. Weiner. Instead, he’ll devote it to hawking gold

On his show yesterday, Glenn Beck decided to finally confront Anthony Weiner’s investigation of his Goldline scam — in predictable Beck fashion:

Step A: Frame such attacks in a paranoid light — “They’re out to destroy me because I speak the truth to you!”

Step B: Double down on the scam by promoting it directly on the show.

Yet as Rep. Weiner noted:

“It is not surprising that Glenn Beck is attempting to deflect from his behavior in promoting Goldline,” Weiner told Yahoo! News in a statement. “But the facts are clear. Goldline rips off consumers and Glenn Beck helps.”

In the report (on Weiner’s House website as a PDF), Weiner charges that Goldline “grossly overcharges” for coins and makes false claims about gold being a good investment. Goldline touts gold as a more solid investment in this economic climate.

The report says the gold retailer has entered “an unholy alliance with conservative pundits” — among them Beck, Fred Thompson, Dennis Miller, Mark Levin and Laura Ingraham — to “promote Goldline by playing off the fear of inflation.”

“What we have found, by looking through the public records, is that very often they use their public programs to advocate purchasing gold, and then immediately, advertisements begin for Goldline,” Weiner said in a news conference Tuesday.

As Will Bunch notes, Mother Jones just published a months-long investigation of the practices of Goldline and its gold-industry cohorts, and the results aren’t pretty:

The price of gold has increased 133 percent since the beginning of 2006, yet many Goldline customers say they have lost money on their purchases after discovering—as Richardson did—that they had badly overpaid for their gold coins. Richardson is one of 44 people across the country who have filed complaints against Goldline with the Los Angeles BBB in the past three years; customers have also griped about their dealings with the company on message boards such as Ripoff Report and PissedOffConsumer.com. Regulators in Missouri have sanctioned the company for pressuring an elderly couple to liquidate their other investments to buy overpriced coins.

The Federal Trade Commission received 17 separate complaints about Goldline’s sales tactics between early 2006 and May 2010, according to information obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. Many of those stories mirror Richardson’s.

And of course, our favorite Insane Wingnut plays an important role in all this:

Beck, whose various media enterprises brought in $32 million last year, according to Forbes, has a particular interest in plugging gold. Since 2008, Goldline has been one of his most reliable sponsors, underwriting his comedy tours and investing heavily in his radio show. Last year, after Beck called President Obama a racist, and mainstream advertisers bailed on his cable show, Goldline stuck by him. And its loyalty appears to have paid off. In an email, Goldline’s executive vice president Scott Carter says that while its Beck sponsorship doesn’t bring in the majority of its customers, it “has improved sales,” which exceed $500 million a year.

… The more worked up Beck gets about the economy or encroaching socialism, the more Goldline can employ those fears in pitching their products to his audience. But in putting his seal of approval on Goldline, “the people I’ve trusted for years and years,” Beck has gone beyond simply endorsing an advertiser.

No doubt Mother Jones will be appearing on Beck’s chalkboard soon, too.

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