Ok, I think I was a bit off target last eve.
I find myself manipulated though with this show. The host of the show with that serious tone seems to make every event an edge of your seat thriller/mystery. "They are driving the excavator hard driving it down the road, smoke is pouring off, it looks like the engine is over heating" COULD THEY HAVE hmm - TURNED IT OFF ? nope, just keep driving it till it dies - it's clearly showing signs of stress- hey - let's push it harder !
I find the narrator voice to be manipulating.
The two guys are absolutely never doing anything but riding on the side of the excavator or standing around, ALWAYS with hair gel.
I find these two guys predatory. They took advantage of a false real estate boom - that wasn't real money - that was money made because Goldman was jacking up the housing sector by processing zero equity Collateralized Debt Obligations
(CDO's), and it really WAS a crime. I find that these guys won't give more than $10 to some locals who built a bridge for them ? questionable. They don't seem to respect anyone in Africa, they seem to be there with the premise that they are there to take the gold and get out. That's not how life works in Africa. I don't see these guys making or being capable of making friends, ALL they care about is their money.
I really don't know why they didn't just to go Alaska. Perhaps it's all one giant Discovery Channel prop.
Maybe Goldman needs more gold now because the bottom is going to fall out of the sovereign currency markets and these shows ? are all propaganda to go get people to bring as much gold to surface as possible so the big fish can stock up on gold - AS banks in India are and have been doing and WISELY SO - as China has been doing and WISELY so.
Gold right now is best to hold on to - not sell. Bernanke is approaching round 4 of quantitative easing and diluting the buying power of the US Dollar. Two years ago ? A can of Campbell's mushroom gravy ? 2 for a dollar on sake. The bowl in front of me ? the cans were 1 for a dollar ON SALE. NEXT YEAR ? They will be 2 for $3 on sale. The buying power of the dollar is shrinking as we print more money.
These two think they can just BUY their way into wealth. Again, I NEVER see them actually DOING anything except POSING as 'how important' they are - this isn't racist but they do NOT RESPECT the locals they are working with. They had NO problem telling the one guy they bought gold from that amount X is all they can pay, when they KNEW they were about to take that gold and go resell it for more. They are thieves in my mind.