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Peter Schiff: Don’t Wait for $3,000 to Buy Gold

Last night, Peter took to YouTube for a special livestream on gold’s recent price action and a few headlines from early this week. He argues the mainstream media and retail investors seem to have lost sight of the metal’s explosive potential. While everyone else is busy hyping Bitcoin, the smart money is piling into gold, […]

Rising Long-Term Interest Rates: The Hidden Impact of High Time Preference

In the wake of last week’s FOMC meeting, it’s worth revisiting the economic function of interest rates, which guide economic activity in accordance with societal time preference. In order to suppress the natural rate of interest, central banks must resort to inflation.

Canada-Mexico Trade War Already Over as Gold Hits Record Highs

Just like that, Trump’s trade war with Canada and Mexico has already ended (or at least been “paused”) before it even began. With gold hitting record new highs and the second Trump administration not even a month old, you can bet it won’t be the first “Trump Shock” to send waves through markets and media.

Peter Schiff: Trump Bites the Hand that Feeds Us

On his Sunday night broadcast, Peter dove into the fallout from President Trump’s tariff policy, which surprised markets on Friday. Peter explores everything from foreign exchange moves to the tariffs’ impacts on everyday American consumers, using analogies to illustrate how these policies could unravel the American economy. 

Instead of a Bitcoin Reserve, Trump Should Talk a Gold Standard

Bitcoiners are salivating at the idea of the Trump administration pumping their holdings by declaring a “Strategic Bitcoin Reserve” where the government pledges to hold onto its current stash or, in another version, start buying more bitcoin and using it to pay down the debt. 

Why We Should Bank Free

Free banking is seen by many as something that should be left in 18th century Scotland. Free banking is where each bank issues their own note that is redeemable for a certain amount of a commodity, typically gold. The value of the note is determined by the assessed probability that that bank will indeed be […]

Market Efficiency vs. Bureaucratic Expansion: A Critical Comparison

With the Trump administration ushering in a new class of bureaucrats under the auspices of private businessmen, it’s worth recalling why the phrase “government efficiency” is an oxymoron. As the Austrian School of Economics stresses, the key difference between business and bureaucracy is the ability to measure profitability. The following article was originally published by […]

The Rise of U.S. Federal Overreach: From Republic to Oligarchy

Critics of President Trump are fond of calling his administration an oligarchy of wealthy businessmen. What they fail to realize, however, is that the United States government has long been an oligarchy, prone to extracting wealth from its citizens and unaccountable even to elections.

Peter Schiff: The Fed is Ignoring Key Data

Shortly after yesterday’s FOMC announcement, Peter went live to unpack its aftermath. He criticizes the Federal Reserve’s decision to hold rates steady, offers insight into Jerome Powell’s press conference remarks, and skewers the notion that the Fed remains “apolitical.” Peter also addresses President Trump’s evolving commentary on oil prices and interest rate cuts as 2025’s […]

DeepSeek’s AI Emergence Triggers Record Nvidia Loss and Tech Selloff

Global investors staged a broad selloff in technology stocks on Monday, wiping out a staggering $593 billion in market value from chipmaker Nvidia—an unprecedented one-day loss for any firm on Wall Street. The downward spiral took hold after Chinese startup DeepSeek announced a low-cost AI assistant that rapidly soared to the top of Apple’s App […]