Peter's Blog

Drop in Gold Output Expected as Mining Companies Lose Money

With many mining companies in the red, analysts expect gold production to drop for the first time since 2008. According to a Bloomberg report, the anticipated drop in production follows a global surge. Gold output jumped 24% in a decade to a record 3,114 metric tons in 2014, according to data from industry researcher GFMS.

Yellen Admits Interest Rates Could Stay at Zero Forever (Audio)

Just as Peter Schiff predicted, the Federal Reserve did not raise interest rates yesterday. In fact, in the press conference following the Federal Open Market Committee meeting, Janet Yellen admitted to a reported that it is not impossible that the Fed might hold rates at zero forever. Peter discusses this news, the movement of the […]

Fed Rate Hike: Will She or Won’t She? (Audio)

Peter Schiff reviews the latest economic data ignored by the mainstream media and maintains his forecast that the Federal Reserve will not raise interest rates this week. Peter also explains why mainstream analysts are all wrong, whether they argue for or against a rate hike. What does the Fed have to hang their hat on? […]

Peter Schiff Was Right: Federal Aid Inflates College Tuition (Video)

Here’s another story for the “Peter Schiff was right” archive and another testament to just how clueless mainstream economists can be. Three years ago, it was already becoming clear that ballooning student debt defaults were becoming a major problem. CNBC reported that the loan “industry underestimated defaults by a whopping $225 billion.” We wrote earlier […]

US Can’t Survive Quantitative Tightening (Video)

In his latest Schiff Report, Peter Schiff tears into the latest non-farm payroll jobs report, which everyone claimed could be the deciding factor for the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates. Peter also discusses the new phenomenon of quantitative tightening, which is the process of foreign central banks selling the US Treasuries they’ve accumulated. [These […]

Peter Schiff Defends His Forecasts and Rails Against College Propaganda (Audio)

In his latest podcast, Tom Woods talks with Peter Schiff about Peter’s track record of forecasting, past and present. Peter defends the performance of his investment strategy, explaining why he thinks mainstream naysayers will soon be proven wrong. After that, Peter and Tom discuss the terrible and absurd condition of college education and the looming […]

Newly Released White Paper: The Student Loan Bubble

This article accompanies SchiffGold’s newly released white paper, The Student Loan Bubble: Gambling with America’s Future. To learn more about the shocking student debt bubble, click here for a free download. “You need a college degree to succeed in America.” This idea has become so commonplace that the right to higher education is now a […]

Frightening Data Points to Potential Market Panic & Fed Inaction

Yesterday, the Arms Index (TRIN) spiked dramatically to levels not seen since 2011 and nearly twice as high as last week’s “Black Monday.” The Arms Index is a way of measuring how balanced the stock market is, with higher values suggesting the market might head in a bearish direction sooner than later. As ZeroHedge describes […]

Pulling Back the Curtain on Fed’s Rate Hike Circus (Audio)

In his podcast released yesterday, Peter Schiff reviews the latest economic data and the ridiculous September rate hike talk from the Federal Reserve. He also talks about his visit to Jackson Hole this past weekend, and the so-called “protest” that the Fed allowed to run parallel to its official event. I think Fed Up was […]

Ray Dalio Follows Peter Schiff’s Lead: Watch for Minor Rate Hike, then QE4

In mid-July, Scott Nations of CNBC as much as laughed in Peter Schiff’s face when Peter predicted the Federal Reserve may raise interest rates a very small amount before launching a fourth round of quantitative easing in 2016. Nations said: It seems that you’re a little bifurcated here. You say that you think the Fed […]