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Greenspan: Gold Is the World’s Premier Currency (Audio)

A couple weeks ago, we reported on Alan Greenspan’s prediction that the price of gold would rise. He said this at the New Orleans Investment Conference. In an interview at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) the next week, Greenspan commented even more on gold, though the CFR did not publish his thoughts in the […]

Friday Feature: The American Dream (Video)

This post was submitted by Erik Oswald, SchiffGold Precious Metals Specialist. Any views expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Peter Schiff or SchiffGold. Check out Peter Schiff’s Gold News every Friday, when Erik will recommend a new entertaining and educational video – the Friday Feature. For this week’s Friday […]

Capitalism: The Solution to Global Oppression & Poverty (Video)

This post was submitted by Erik Oswald, SchiffGold Precious Metals Specialist. Any views expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Peter Schiff or SchiffGold. In this lecture, Dr. Andrew Bernstein discusses why capitalism is the best system for men to live under, from both socio-economic and moral standpoints. Free markets […]

US Monetary Imperialism: Ending US Dollar Corruption (Audio)

The Mises Institute has released the second part of an exclusive interview between its President Jeff Deist and Patrick Barron, a private banking industry consultant. Find the first part of this engrossing interview here. In this second half, Deist and Barron discuss: How US dollar supremacy might come to an end with a whimper, instead […]

Swiss Gold Vote Could Set Trend for All Central Banks (Video)

Last week, gold and silver analyst Dan Popescu interviewed Egon von Greyerz, Founder and Managing Partner of Matterhorn Asset Management. They spoke at length about the upcoming Swiss Gold Referendum, which we’ve previously reported on here and here. Von Greyerz provides great insight into the Swiss mindset and the importance of gold for central banks […]

A Snapshot of Global Silver Demand

This post was submitted by Erik Oswald, SchiffGold Precious Metals Specialist. Sales of the US Silver Eagle are often looked to as the leading indicator of demand for silver bullion coins. It remains the most popular bullion coin among investors both domestically and internationally. While the Eagle has been in the limelight for nearly a […]

Alan Greenspan: Price of Gold Will Rise

In his latest article from Merk Insights, renowned investment advisor Axel Merk shares his observations of Alan Greenspan’s performance at the New Orleans Investment Conference this last weekend. In particular, people tried to pin down Greenspan on the topic of gold. While it sounds like the former Federal Reserve Chairman was pretty cagey, he did […]

Jim Rickards: Central Banks Are Impotent (Video)

Jim Rickards, author of The Death of Money, spoke with Erin Ade on RT’s Boom Bust this week. He explained why central banks around the world are incapable of preventing the inevitable fallout of the current international currency wars. Rickards isn’t sure what will trigger the next big crisis – a debt crisis in the […]

US Monetary Imperialism: The Emperor Has No Clothes (Audio)

Jeff Deist, President of the Mises Institute, interviewed Patrick Barron, a private consultant to the banking industry. In this not-to-be-missed conversation, Barron explains exactly how the United States dollar became the world’s “reserve currency,” allowing America to become a “monetary imperialist.” According to Austrian economist Hans Hoppe, a monetary imperialist is a dominant country that […]

A Sunny Outlook for Industrial Silver Demand

On Friday, we gave you an update on silver investment demand. While it’s a leading factor in the silver price, investment demand is just one side of the silver picture. More than half of global silver demand comes from the industrial sector, and the deficit of silver supplies keeps getting larger. 2013 saw the largest […]