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Peter Schiff: We’ve Had a Sale on Gold for a Long Time; It’s About to End

The stock market has been rocked over the last week but gold has rallied.  In his most recent podcast, Peter called gold “the real standout in the market.” The price of gold finally woke up — or traders work up and notice how cheap gold is.”

Federal Government Posts Largest Deficit in Six Years

The federal debt spiral continues. The 2018 fiscal year ended Sept. 30 and the US government closed out the year with its largest budget deficit since 2012. Uncle Sam ended 2018 $779 billion in the red, adding to the ballooning national debt.

Fatal Conceit and the Question That’s Never Asked

Keynesian central planners suffer from what Peter Schmidt calls “fatal conceit.” Paul Krugman serves as the poster child for central planning arrogance. But it’s the Federal Reserve that gives the central planners power, as Schmidt highlighted in the first article in a series highlighting this fatal conceit. Schmidt built on this theme in the second article, […]

Peter Schiff: We’re About to See a Sequel to ’08 and Like All Sequels It Will Be Bad (Video)

In the wake of the stock market plunge last week, Pre. Donald Trump said the market drop wasn’t because of his trade war. Trump said, “That wasn’t it. The problem I have is with the Fed. The Fed is going wild. They’re raising interest rates and it’s ridiculous.” He also said the Fed is “going loco.” […]

Peter Schiff Explains Why We Could See $5,000 Gold (Video)

Could we be heading toward $5,000 gold? Last week, there was a big sell-off in the bond market. Yields on the 10-year Treasury soared 11 basis points in one day. Global stock markets sold off the following morning and US stock markets followed suit. This week, things really got really ugly on Wall Street. The […]

Investors Throw a Temper Tantrum: SchiffGold Friday Gold Wrap 10.12.18

The SchiffGold Friday Gold Wrap podcast combines a succinct summary of the week’s precious metals news coupled with thoughtful analysis. You can subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.

Fun on Friday: You Gotta Pay These Bacteria to Work

Will work for gold! Who wouldn’t right? I don’t know about you, but I would work even harder for some gold than I would for dollars, knowing the Federal Reserve isn’t going to inflate the value of my gold away by 2% or more every year. Well, apparently people aren’t the only organisms that know the […]

Peter Schiff: The Recession Is Obviously Coming

The Dow Jones fell 831 points Wednesday, a decline of more than 3%. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 charted its biggest daily decline since February and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 4.08 percent. This follows on the heels of a 200-point drop in the Dow last week after the 10-year US Treasury yield hit the highest level […]

Indians Buying Gold in the Midst of Their Stock Market Downturn

US stock markets plunged Wednesday, shedding over 800 points. Could the be the popping bubble Ron Paul recently said was on the horizon? That remains to be seen. But equities in many emerging markets have been shedding value for several months. Take India for instance. As a recent article in the Economic Times of India […]

Ron Paul: We Have the Biggest Bubble in the History of Mankind.

The mainstream is giddy about the “booming economy.” We have rising stock markets, continued job creation and solid GDP growth. But Ron Paul recently appeared on CNBC Futures Now and threw a big bucket of cold water on the mainstream narrative. He said we are barreling toward a recession.