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The Fed Is Waging Jihad Against Savers and Retirees (Video)

David Stockman, former Budget Director under President Reagan, appeared on Fox Business to warn that the United States faces a financial “time bomb” of $19 trillion of ballooning debt. This debt load will eventually become unsustainable when interest rates rise, which is an inevitability. Stockman points to the same historical data as Alan Greenspan – interest […]

Perception Is the New Truth: Physical vs. Paper Gold (Video)

Bloomberg Business interviewed Peter Hambro, Chairman and Co-Founder of Petropavlovsk – one of the largest gold mining companies in Russia. Hambro presented physical gold to the Bloomberg anchors, who seemed genuinely dubious as to its value, insisting that gold is for “speculators.” Hambro clarified that “paper gold” is for speculators, and he believes the Comex futures […]

The US Economy Is One Giant Bubble (Audio)

Last weekend, Peter Schiff spoke with Free Talk Live, a nationally syndicated radio show. They discussed the growing student debt bubble, Peter’s imprisoned father Irwin, and the reasons why American businesses are moving to Puerto Rico. You can download the free report they discuss here: The Student Loan Bubble: Gambling with America’s Future. The bubble […]

US Mint Silver Shortage – An Inside Look (Audio)

SilverDoctors.com interviewed Tom Power, the CEO of Sunshine Minting. Sunshine is one of the biggest suppliers of silver blanks to the United States Mint, which the Mint uses to strike the American Silver Eagle coins. Sunshine also also supplies gold and silver blanks to producers around the world, and has its own line of very […]

Don’t Let a Little Debt Get in the Way of Learning (Video)

When Alexis meets Scott Govinsky (“Everybody calls me Gov”), she’s ready to drop out of college and pursue a small business that has been making her money. Gov convinces Alexis to not only stay in school by taking out a loan, but to go into even more debt than necessary by traveling abroad in Italy. […]

Markets Are Prepared for Wrong Outcome in US Economy (Video)

A couple weeks ago, Peter Schiff joined Fox Business on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange to discuss the possibility of the Federal Reserve raising interest rates. He shared his candid opinion that investors should avoid US stocks and look to foreign markets and gold. Remember, when the year started you had two […]

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 […]

Stock Volatility Is a Precursor to Recession (Video)

Early last week, Newsmax TV interviewed Peter Schiff and Steve Beaman, Chairman of The Society to Advance Financial Education. The had a friendly conversation about the factors that triggered the dramatic fall in Chinese and US stocks. Surprisingly enough, Beaman agreed with much of what Peter said about the Federal Reserve, though he still maintained […]

Gold Is Money, Not a Commodity; If You Want Money, Have Some Gold (Video)

Jim Rickards defended holding 10% of your portfolio in gold on Fox Business this week. Dagen McDowell aggressively challenged his argument that gold is the equivalent of an insurance policy for your wealth, but Rickards pointed to thousands of years of history supporting his investment strategy. Rickards also stuck with his forecast for the gold […]

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 […]