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When Does Gold Finally Correct?

Gold’s meteoric rise has captured the world’s attention and is leaving the usual voices in traditional finance stupefied. There’s talk of bubbles, frenzies, and froth. Gold is down now from its peak, but when will it substantially correct?  On a long enough timeline, when central bankers print infinite amounts of fiat currency, gold is bound […]

Philly Fed Index Sinks to Lowest Since April — Gold Pops Above $4,300

Manufacturing in the mid-Atlantic hit an air pocket in October, according to the Philadelphia Fed’s latest Business Outlook Survey, even as raw-material prices kept marching higher and gold flirted with fresh highs. The headline activity index cratered 36 points to –12.8—its worst showing since April—while barely one in eight firms said conditions improved. Yet selling […]

Peter Schiff: Gold Pricks the Bitcoin Bubble

In Wednesday’s episode of The Peter Schiff Show, Peter concentrates on the fallout from gold breaking $4,000 and what that means for the dollar, monetary policy, and crypto. He ties the metal’s surge to the structural consequences of the dollar’s reserve status, calls out surprising admissions from big-name financiers and former Fed officials, and argues […]

Sentiment Trading and the Limits of Knowledge

While value investors examine companies’ financial data and future outlook, most short-term investment strategies now incorporate some sentiment analysis insights. Rather than analyzing the long-term ability to create value of a company, quantitative traders recognize that investor sentiment is the primary driving factor of short term price fluctuation. Far from the perfect competition assumption of […]

Crypto Industry & Wall Street Unite Against Gold

Join Peter Schiff for a special Tuesday Market Wrap episode of the Schiff Gold Podcast, where he dives into the historic highs and recent volatility in the gold and silver markets. Originally planning to cover two weeks of market activity in a single Friday wrap-up, Schiff decided to address the significant happenings of the past […]

The Technicals: Recovering from 2011 PTSD

Editors Note I typically write the Technical Analysis quarterly. I most recently analyzed the data last month; however, the gold and silver market has seen a year’s worth of activity in the last month. Thus, I thought it would be good to review again this month. Furthermore, as someone who lived through the last blow […]

Loose Money, Tight Money, and the Illusion of Control

With the Fed’s latest rate cut still in view, economic fallacies abound. Policymakers and talking heads speak of monetary policy as a lever that can be flipped back and forth without issue. But, as the Austrian school demonstrates, simply reversing monetary course cannot undo the malinvestment caused by easy money. The following article was originally […]

The Coming Crisis of the American Tax State

Two weeks into the government shutdown, many eyes are on the federal budget. Now is as good a time as any to remind the public both why the US should properly be called a “tax state” and why that’s not a good thing for the country. The following article was originally published by the Mises […]

No, Inflation is not “Crushed”

Trump has repeatedly claimed that he has beaten inflation. His high spending “Big Beautiful Bill,” along with his desperate calls for expansionary monetary policy draw ire from anyone who understands the world from an Austrian perspective. However, he still has the audacity to claim that he has solved inflation, and we no longer need to […]

Schiff on Fox Business: The Whole Mining Sector is Cheap

Peter recently appeared on Fox Business to comment on the precious metal sector’s record-breaking price action. With the yellow and white metal both reaching new all-time highs and the futures market showing no sign of slowing, Peter explains the rally and analyzes its broader significance to American savers and world governments.  He starts by putting […]