The Glenn Beck School of Investing
Should you take investment advice from Glenn Beck? - MSN Money 12/11/12 11:44 PM Bing Money Make msn.com your home page Extra 8/25/2010 7:00 PM ET The Glenn Beck school of investing Conservative talk-show host Glenn Beck doesn't claim to be a money expert, but he does dispense a lot of financial advice. Are gold and seeds good places to put your cash? [Related content: gold, economy, Treasury, financial planning, politics] By Karen Aho MSN Money Glenn Beck likes to worry, and one of the things he's worried about is your money. Leading conservative talk-radio hosts As the conservative talk-show host sees it, progressives are wrapping up a decades-long plot to supplant the capitalist system with a godless, Marxist state, one where entrepreneurship, stock prices -- in fact, your entire financial future -- may as well be in a coma. If that's not enough, there's rising debt and inflation to worry about, along with natural disasters, social programs and terrorist attacks. Sometimes, Beck worries himself to tears. Find a broker and start trading online Although there's a lot of fun to be had mocking the radio and television personality's on-air theatrics (Beck gets into the act, touting himself as the "crying conservative") and apocalyptic advice (stock the fruit cellar), there's no laughing at the very real anxiety he taps into. His predictions, after all, are just a few steps beyond those of such respected economists as Nouriel Roubini -- the one they call Dr. Doom.
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