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FOMC Minutes Confirm Peter Schiff’s Forecast: No Rate Hike in September (Audio)

After the Federal Open Market Committee’s meeting yesterday, the markets finally started to wake up to the fact that Janet Yellen’s Federal Reserve has no clue when or how it will raise rates. Analysts are starting to realize what Peter has said before – how will the Fed deal with the next recession if rates are […]

Puerto Rico Is the Only Place in World where Americans Can Be Free (Video)

CCTV America interviewed Peter Schiff last week about the benefits of moving your business to Puerto Rico. Earlier this year, Peter discussed how moving to Puerto Rico is the next best thing to renouncing your United States citizenship without having to pay exit taxes to the federal government. In this interview, he also points out […]

Irwin Schiff: Political Prisoner Seeking Compassionate Release (Video)

Peter Schiff appeared on Alex Jones’ InfoWars last week to share some sad news. Peter’s father, Irwin Schiff, has just been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. With a couple more years left in his prison sentence, this effectively means Irwin Schiff will serve a life sentence for his political beliefs. Peter and Alex discussed the […]

Don’t Trade Gold – Hold It as an Insurance Policy (Video)

Marc Faber explained his gold investment philosophy to CNBC. Like Peter Schiff, Faber is a contrarian who doesn’t buy into the consensus view that the United States dollar is going to remain a strong currency. While the price of gold in Chinese yuan has risen steeply recently, Faber still believes it is a great time […]

The Future of Money: Fool Me Once, Shame on You. Fool Me Twice…

This article was submitted by Addison Quale, SchiffGold Precious Metals Specialist. Any views expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Peter Schiff or SchiffGold. I recently attended the Freedom Fest Conference in Las Vegas this past month. During a panel discussion that included a number of Austrian School economists, it […]

The Shot Not Heard Around the World

This article is written by Peter Schiff and originally published by Euro Pacific Capital. Find it here. Peter discusses the real lessons to be learned from China’s yuan devaluation of last week, which garnered so much mainstream attention. Peter brought up some of these points in a CNBC interview last week. China’s recent move to […]

Could the Yuan Replace the Dollar? (Video)

Newsmax TV interviewed Peter Schiff earlier this week about the devaluation of the yuan. Peter did not agree with Donald Trump’s mainstream opinion that this news out of China will have terrible consequences for the United States. Instead, Peter emphasized how much more productive and robust the Chinese economy is compared to the US. When […]

Surviving Without Fiat: Alternative Currencies in Greece

The other week, we wrote about the growing barter economy in Greece. With cash withdrawal limits still in place, Greek citizens are finding it difficult to conduct daily business using traditional methods. Now, the Wall Street Journal reports on the flourishing of a variety of alternative currencies, particularly one named TEM: TEM—a sophisticated form of […]

The “Logic” Behind the War on Cash (Audio)

Earlier this year, we wrote about the latest developments in the international “war on cash.” Some central bankers have gone so far as to suggest that cash be eliminated entirely. In his latest podcast, Tom Woods and Charles Hugh Smith talk about why central authorities want to abolish cash and the role cash plays in […]

PBOC & Yuan: Trust Gold, Not Central Bankers

This article was submitted by Addison Quale, SchiffGold Precious Metals Specialist. Any views expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Peter Schiff or SchiffGold. So the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) just weakened the yuan fix to the United States dollar by the most on record – 1.9%. A central […]