{"id":340818,"date":"2010-02-19T12:58:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T17:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/gold-medals-not-actually-worth-their-weight-in-gold-after-all-2010-2"},"modified":"2010-02-19T12:58:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T17:58:00","slug":"olympians-screwed-as-gold-medals-hardly-have-any-gold-in-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/340818","title":{"rendered":"Olympians Screwed As &#8220;Gold Medals&#8221; Hardly Have Any Gold In Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4b7c6568000000000026757c\/salt-lake-olympics.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Salt Lake Olympics\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you are so skilled as to bring back a gold medal from the Olympics, you shouldn&#8217;t run out and get it melted down, <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704804204575069743500426152.html?mod=WSJ_hps_sections_personalfinance\">according to the Wall Street Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704804204575069743500426152.html?mod=WSJ_hps_sections_personalfinance\">They report<\/a> that, at this year&#8217;s games, the things aren&#8217;t even made out of gold, unless you consider 6 grams of gold plating on top of silver the real thing.<\/p>\n<p>The medals are significantly heavier this time around and worth way more, but still not the solid gold end- -of-career investment most competitors hope for <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704804204575069743500426152.html?mod=WSJ_hps_sections_personalfinance\">at a price of $500 melted down<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Still, if you&#8217;re a little short of cash for skates, you&#8217;ll do anything, right?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/gold-medals-not-actually-worth-their-weight-in-gold-after-all-2010-2#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/credit-suisse-says-charts-show-gold-is-poised-to-jump-higher-2010-2\">Credit Suisse Says Charts Show Gold Is Poised To Jump Higher<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/like-gold-then-you-better-like-investing-abroad-2010-2\">Like Gold? Then You Better Like Investing Abroad<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/morning-markets-equities-up-slightly-commodities-struggle-to-hold-gains-2010-2\">Morning Markets: Equities Up Slightly, Commodities Struggle To Hold Gains<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/XXKOX7oH7UE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are so skilled as to bring back a gold medal from the Olympics, you shouldn&#8217;t run out and get it melted down, according to the Wall Street Journal. They report that, at this year&#8217;s games, the things aren&#8217;t even made out of gold, unless you consider 6 grams of gold plating on top [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}