And we’ll continue to downplay Beck as a nut, even as he made enough buying gold to buy himself a whole network...
I don’t know how many subscribers he has, but at $10/month, that alone must be a fair amount of revenue. And he will make his documentaries available for free, after the first broadcast. He puts out books, like a chicken laying eggs and they all go to the top of the best seller lists. He backs other authors and they do very well because of it. And then his other enterprises: clothing, concerts, special events all seem to at least pay for themselves. He also has a popular radio show which has spun off another show, all with advertisers and contracts with broadcasters. He is earning his money, IMO, the old-fashioned way: by working for it.
Buying gold does not pay the bills. Selling gold might.
FWIW, I don’t see him as a nut. I think no one can time the end of a collapse. I also think we are in a collapse. It is simply just too slow and includes too many elements, some of which vacillate, to perceive. Half the population is in the work force, but there is a vast number of pensioners, retirees with adequate income, educational and medical workers of all levels who are keeping the economy going. In my rural area, the manufacturing is going at a fast clip, with overtime and marginal land with several detriments (pipeline/floodplain) is selling at nearly $3k/acre. New boutiques, creative enterprises and restaurants keep opening and most stay in business and some expand. Still, everyone admits to being anxious and feeling insecure. It is cognitive dissonance writ large.
Nothing continues in a straight line extrapolation, in either direction, forever. Right now, people seem to feel we are muddling through, even though the trend is frightening. We all need to straddle the line of we will continue to survive, economically, on one side, and we will crash and burn on the other. It is exhausting. It takes awareness and patience. But, basically, I don’t think anyone has a real clue as to what is actually going happen and when.
I think it's pretty "nutty" to build himself his own "oval office". Grandiosity, they name is Glenn Beck.
Glenn Beck's Oval Office {Beck going all in for Mitt?]
Interesting. At 1:52 in Glenn's speech from the "oval office See it here the camera pans out to show a bust of the head of a white horse.
I don't see Glenn as a nut, but as an alcoholic flim-flam man who has been, and is using mormonism to fulfill his grandious dreams.
He will continue to beat the drum of doom and gloom in order to keep the cash flowing in.
BTW, "restore" is a mormon code word that is being used by both Glenn and Mitt.