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Bull vs. Bear: When Will the Stock Market Capitulate? (Video)

On Fox Business, Peter Schiff debated Andy Brenner, who argued that now is the time to be bullish on the US economy and stock market. Brenner pointed to the latest 5% unemployment figure as his main proof. Peter again made the case that unemployment data is a lagging indicator of economic health at best. While […]

Next Crisis Will Be Much Harder on All Americans (Audio)

Peter Schiff spoke with the X22 Report earlier this week and covered the gamut of economic analysis. They first discussed the latest economic data and why the United States is likely heading into a fresh recession in 2016. They compare the coming crisis to 2008, looking at the long-term collapse of the dollar and what […]

Peter Schiff Says Wild Ride on Wall Street Will Continue Until Fed Admits the Truth (Video)

Peter Schiff discussed the miserable start for Wall Street in 2016 on Newsmax Prime. Peter said that until the Fed admits the truth about the economy, there is really nothing to stop stocks from continuing on a downward trajectory: There really is nothing to support this market until the Fed acknowledges how weak the economy […]

Peter Schiff: Puerto Rico Bailout Immoral; Bankruptcy a Better Solution (Video)

In a recent interview on CCTV America, Peter Schiff discussed the debt crisis in Puerto Rico and whether the US should bail out the struggling territory. The Puerto Rico Infrastructure Financing Authority went into default earlier this month, fueling speculation that the US should help with a bailout. But Peter argues that is the wrong […]

Peter Schiff’s 2016 Outlook for Gold Fundamentals (Video)

On Kitco News yesterday, Peter Schiff put the past three years of falling gold prices in perspective. He emphasized that gold’s recent performance should be considered in the larger picture of a gold bull market that began in 1999. It has simply been investor assumptions and speculation about an improving economy that allowed gold’s correction […]

Fed Has Created an Economic Hall of Mirrors (Video)

Jim Grant agrees with Peter Schiff that the Federal Reserve cannot continue to raise interest rates in 2016. On CNBC today, Grant explained his reasoning for why the Fed will regret raising rates in December and reverse its course of action: It seems to me that the Fed is more likely to go to zero […]

Price of Gold to Rise Significantly in Next Five Years

This following interview with Peter Schiff was originally published at Gold Eagle. Find it here. Gold-Eagle: Fed Chair Janet Yellen recently hiked interest rates by 0.25%. What impact do you believe this will have upon US stocks and the national economy? Peter Schiff: The air was already coming out of the bubble prior to this tiny rate […]

Demolishing the “Deregulation Caused the Financial Crisis” Myth

Hindsight is supposed to be 20-20, but for some people it seems like it’s blind. We’re approaching a decade since the housing bubble burst, plunging the US economy into the worst crisis since the great depression. Still, defenders of big government and central planning continue efforts to sell the myth that the meltdown was caused […]

All Fed Decisions Are Made for Political Reasons (Video)

Peter Schiff made his regular appearance on InfoWars last Friday. Guest host Paul Joseph Watson talked with him about the Federal Reserve’s rate hike decision and gold’s price movement in response. They also discussed the destruction of the American middle class, the ill effects of minimum wage laws, and the role the Fed will play […]

The Battle Continues: Schiff vs. Nations on Gold & Fed Rate Hike (Video)

Peter Schiff’s appearance on CNBC’s Futures Now yesterday was quite different from his interview on Fox Business on Wednesday. CNBC anchors more or less scoffed at his suggestion that the Federal Reserve’s rate hike announcement was simply a strategy to cover the fact that the Fed has almost zero confidence in the United States’ economic […]