goldbrick

Example Sentences

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Meaning: A lot of goldbugs lost their faith in the market model for gold trading and decided to ditch it in favor of the actual stuff.

From Slate • Oct. 22, 2024

Many goldbugs cite the troubling depreciative nature of fiat paper currencies that aren't backed up by anything real.

From US News • Jun. 22, 2016

That sound you hear is goldbugs insisting that this is just a flesh wound.

From Washington Post • Jul. 25, 2015

That's left the goldbugs most impervious to empirical reality with nothing to say other than that "gold hasn't lost any value, the dollar has just strengthened."

From Washington Post • Jul. 25, 2015

Even our currency system is blasted by goldbugs, and Prohibition milk- sickness is being treated with vermifuge.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 by Brann, William Cowper