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Comex: Physical Silver Demand Keeps the Market in Backwardation

The CME Comex is the Exchange where futures are traded for gold, silver, and other commodities. The CME also allows futures buyers to turn their contracts into physical metal through delivery. You can find more detail on the CME here (e.g., vault types, major/minor months, delivery explanation, historical data, etc.). The data below looks at […]

Schiff on the Paul Barron Network: Bitcoin Is Not Sound Money

Last week, Peter joined Paul Barron to walk through why gold still defines “sound money,” why Bitcoin falls short, and how tokenization could actually help precious metals — not replace them. He critiques the American obsession with crypto, warns about leveraged Bitcoin collapses, and explains how banks would treat tokenized gold very differently from tokenized […]

Schiff w/ La Roche: 1970s Stagflation is Calling

Peter recently appeared on The Julia La Roche show, addressing a broad audience about why he sees trouble ahead for the U.S. economy and what that means for savers. He covers the loss of confidence in the dollar, the role of the Federal Reserve as buyer of last resort, the political danger of tariffs, and […]

Schiff w/ Diesen: Trump Isn’t Fixing Inflation

Glenn Diesen recently interviewed Peter to discuss the latest political happenings and President Trump’s public criticism of Peter on Truth Social. Peter lays out why Trumponomics, as practiced today, looks a lot like the very policies that caused trouble under the prior administration: big deficits, easy money, and a reliance on the Fed to inflate […]

Schiff on Kitco News: The Fed Will Print More  

Last week, Peter joined Kitco News to take stock of the Federal Reserve’s stealth return to quantitative easing and what it means for inflation, the dollar, and precious metals. He walks through why short-term Treasury purchases are no different in effect from longer-term QE, why the Fed will likely have to expand its interventions, and […]

Peter Schiff: Silver Is the Big Story

On Thursday’s episode of the Peter Schiff Show, Peter lays out why precious metals are taking center stage while fiat currency policy unravels. He walks through surging silver prices, rising unemployment and shrinking manufacturing, a return to quantitative easing, the political choice for the next Fed chair, and an imminent crypto crash — all reasons […]

Jobs: The Economy Only Added 28k jobs from Jan-Jun

Note: This includes the Jobs report for November that was released on December 16th and the QCEW Report released on Dec 19th The analysis below covers the Employment picture released on the first Friday of every month. While most of the attention goes to the Headline Report, it can be helpful to look at the […]

How Government Policy Turns Generations and Classes Against Each Other

In a limping and heavily distorted economy, it’s easy to blame one group or demographic for “ruining the economy.” Caste analysis, in the tradition of the Austrian school, shows us that it’s not one specific demographic or class that’s to blame. Rather, the economy’s woes result from those who seize political power for selfish gain. […]

The Fed’s “Sick Design”: How Post-2008 Policy Supercharged the Cantillon Effect

With the Fed cutting rates this month, free-market economists stand alone again in their condemnation of inflationary monetary policy. Despite recent years of high inflation, most economists still don’t appreciate the sinister and destructive effect inflation has on the economy, even in small amounts. The following article was originally published by the Mises Institute. The […]

Schiff on Commodity Culture: Silver and Gold Are Poised to Soar

Peter joined the Commodity Culture podcast on Friday to walk through recent moves in precious metals and explain why he thinks inflationary pressure is returning to the market. He ties silver and gold action to what he calls a de facto return to quantitative easing, warns that politicized central banking will make matters worse, and […]