- Rosland Capital, a fixture of Fox News ad breaks, filed for Chapter 11 on July 2 owing at least $60 million to 617 customers — with no metal left in inventory.
- Tucker Carlson says gold firms sell commemorative coins to conservative retirees at roughly 50% over spot.
- Those markups fund the celebrity endorsements that sell them. One firm offered Carlson $10 million a year.
- Know your premium over spot, skip "collectible" coins, and confirm the metal exists before wiring money.
Tucker Carlson says gold companies have spent years overcharging conservative retirees, selling commemorative coins at roughly 50% over spot price and funding celebrity endorsements out of the spread.
Speaking on Decentralize.TV, Carlson told host Mike Adams that after he was fired from Fox News in 2023, several gold companies called wanting a spokesman. One of them offered him $10 million a year. The number stopped him. Gold is a commodity priced on the open market, he said, so he called his longtime broker in Texas to ask where that kind of money could possibly come from. Her answer: those firms were selling at "like 50% over spot," on commemorative coins rather than plain bullion. The broker Carlson had used for years charged about 3%.
Roughly half the people fronting these companies, Carlson said, were people he knew personally from cable television. He called one of them — Candace Owens — to ask whether she understood what her sponsor was doing. She said no, and, by Carlson's account, dropped the company once she found out. He estimated the sponsorship was worth "millions," though he said he did not know the figure.
Others did not. "Sean Hannity didn't do that at all. Mark Levin didn't do that. Glenn Beck didn't do that," Carlson said. "And they all should have."
What enraged him, he said, was not the corruption itself but the betrayal. The people being taken were the ones who trusted gold precisely because they distrusted everything else — fixed-income couples who watched Fox, quoted the Constitution, and believed a gold IRA was the safe choice.
Rosland Capital collapses, owing customers $60 million
Rosland Capital, one of the industry's most heavily advertised names, filed for Chapter 11 liquidation on July 2 — a bankruptcy Carlson noted in passing during the interview. The Los Angeles dealer, whose commercials ran for years on Fox News, filed for Chapter 11 liquidation on July 2.
Court filings reported by Money Metals Exchange and TheStreet describe a firm with nothing left to return. 617 customers are owed at least $60 million in orders never delivered and buybacks never honored. The restructuring officer states the company holds no remaining inventory of coins or bullion; nearly all employees were let go in June. Its salesforce had been earning 15% to 35% of gross profit, paid out even on orders that later fell through. Revenue slid from about $151 million in 2021 to $97.8 million in 2025, with losses topping $24 million over four years. The filings also disclose an SEC inquiry into the company's precious-metals IRA business and a New York attorney general investigation into its sales practices. Rosland's largest listed creditor is Fox News Network, owed $1.9 million.
What every buyer should ask before wiring the money
Adams said he faced the same choice. Roughly two and a half to three years ago, he told Carlson, one of the companies Carlson later exposed offered him $100,000 a month to promote its products. He did not name the firm. His own due diligence turned up markups of 40% to 50% over spot. He turned the money down.
Carlson co-founded Battalion Metals with North Dakota bullion dealer Chris Olson, selling at roughly 3% over spot — a volume business, he said, not a fortune.
The protection here is not complicated, and it does not require trusting anyone on television. Know exactly what you are paying over spot. Buy recognizable bullion, not "collectible" coins invented to bury a markup. Take delivery, or know precisely who is holding your metal and whether it exists. Rosland's customers thought they owned gold. What they owned was a promise from a company that had already spent the money.
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