Investor Replaces Entire 401(k) With Lifetime Supply of Gold Bullion After Reading One Reddit Post
In what experts are calling the most chaotic personal finance move of the decade, a 34-year-old man from Ohio has liquidated his entire retirement portfolio to purchase a room-sized pile of gold bars, citing a viral Reddit thread titled "Gold Is the Only Real Money, Take the Red Pill." The man, now living in a storage unit surrounded by his nest egg, claims his portfolio is "perfectly diversified" because the gold bricks are stacked in different shapes. Wall Street analysts are baffled, but the man's mother says she's "just glad he's not buying NFTs again." Meanwhile, gold prices have remained steady, but the price of industrial-grade padlocks has skyrocketed.