Argentines pawn the family jewels to make ends meet | Buenos Aires Times
www.batimes.com.ar
Hundreds of Argentines are selling their jewellery at gold dealerships every day as a last resort to face the economic crisis.
      • smokebuddy [he/him]@lemmy.today
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        6 months ago

        https://youtu.be/ihvG3RgbYzE?feature=shared&t=2062

        he did a paid advertisement for gold that talked about how great it is to hold including a segment about how people in the wake of natural disaster used family heirlooms for liquidity

  • Gosplan14_the_Third [none/use name]
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    6 months ago

    Oh hey, my family did this back in early 2010s Italy. The local gold and silver dealership proudly displayed a copy of L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics near the counter, that was fun.