Now it is scaring up anxiety that you'll lack the gold to pay for your golden years.

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"And also, I react to this as a journalist -- an interchange of information and ideas between government and the news media is indispensable to a functioning democracy, and if you start scaring sources with the possibility of years in prison, the loser is not going to be the news media -- it's going to be the public, " he said.

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The economic "lessons, " which include such catchphrases such as "self worth beats net worth, " and "stop obsessing about the economy, you're scaring the children, " started going up in May and now number around 2, 000 postings across the country, according to Jeff Golimowski of the Outdoor Advertising Association of America.

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You watch the final five minutes standing on your toes, clapping your hands, scaring the pets.

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