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    <description>A full hour, twice a week, on gold, fees and retirement. No breaks, no call centre, no panic selling. Hosted by Alan Johnson of Heritage Gold Partners.</description>
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      <title>War broke out and gold went down</title>
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      <description>The military hit two Iranian rocket launchers on Sunday. Oil jumped. Gold fell. Most people would tell you that is backwards — and understanding why it happened explains how this market really works.</description>
      <itunes:summary>The military hit two Iranian rocket launchers on Sunday. Oil jumped. Gold fell. Most people would tell you that is backwards — and understanding why it happened explains how this market really works.</itunes:summary>
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      <title>The inflation number, three hours old</title>
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      <description>The government released the inflation figure the Federal Reserve watches three hours before air. Alan opens it live and reads the part underneath the headline — the part that does not make the news.</description>
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      <title>Forty trillion, from Malibu</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The Treasury reported the national debt crossed a number with a lot of zeros, and that same week gold closed its best week since spring. Alan takes the number apart the way a banker walks you through your own statement — and shows the rule of finance the market threw out the window this week.</description>
      <itunes:summary>The Treasury reported the national debt crossed a number with a lot of zeros, and that same week gold closed its best week since spring. Alan takes the number apart the way a banker walks you through your own statement — and shows the rule of finance the market threw out the window this week.</itunes:summary>
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      <title>Three billion dollars a day</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>America's interest bill passed Medicare for the first time and broke a record standing since 1991. On the same Tuesday, the world's lenders repriced every big borrower on earth. Plus the Fed minutes, opened live.</description>
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      <title>The report and the receipt</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Washington said inflation is cooling. The same week, gas hit its highest August price on record, paychecks lost to prices for a fourth straight month, and shoppers cut spending the most in over a year. The hour is about the space between the report and the receipt.</description>
      <itunes:summary>Washington said inflation is cooling. The same week, gas hit its highest August price on record, paychecks lost to prices for a fourth straight month, and shoppers cut spending the most in over a year. The hour is about the space between the report and the receipt.</itunes:summary>
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      <title>The machine is already broken</title>
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      <description>An analyst wrote one line this week that stopped Alan cold: the machine is already broken, it simply has not been told yet. A full hour on the borrowed time between when something breaks and when everyone finds out.</description>
      <itunes:summary>An analyst wrote one line this week that stopped Alan cold: the machine is already broken, it simply has not been told yet. A full hour on the borrowed time between when something breaks and when everyone finds out.</itunes:summary>
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      <title>The signal that passed the dot-com peak</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A momentum signal in the stock market has gone past where it stood in 2000, before the NASDAQ fell nearly 80%. Not approaching it, past it. What that means for a retirement account, in plain English.</description>
      <itunes:summary>A momentum signal in the stock market has gone past where it stood in 2000, before the NASDAQ fell nearly 80%. Not approaching it, past it. What that means for a retirement account, in plain English.</itunes:summary>
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