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Peter Schiff’s Contrarian Take on China vs US

CNBC spoke with Peter Schiff last night about his expectations for today’s first quarter GDP announcement. They went on to discuss why no matter what the GDP is, the Federal Reserve will be unable to significantly raise interest rates this year. In a second segment, they spoke about the growth of China’s economy. Peter argues […]

US GDP Drops Dramatically in First Quarter

Just as Peter Schiff has been predicting, first-quarter GDP in the United States was revised dramatically lower today. The Commerce department previously estimated that US economic output rose 0.2% in the first quarter of 2015, but it is now reporting a seasonally adjusted rate of negative 0.7%. Peter has anticipated this downward revision since the […]

The Fed Considers a More Seasoned Approach

The Federal Reserve and mainstream economists have recently put a lot of effort into discounting the first-quarter GDP figures. In his latest commentary from Euro Pacific Capital, Peter Schiff walks us through the supposed logic of seasonally-adjusted economic data and why the government feels the need to revise the way it looks at decades of […]

Axel Merk: Real Interest Rates Will Remain Near Zero for a Decade (Audio)

Jay Taylor spoke with Axel Merk about the gold market and mismanagement of global economies by central banks. Merk believes that the United States, Europe, and Japan cannot afford to raise real interest rates. So even if the Federal Reserve delivers a nominal interest rate hike later this year, effective real rates will remain near […]

Venezuela Could Be a Crystal Ball for America

A lot of mainstream analysts will tell you that hyperinflation and currency collapse can’t happen today in an established economy, and they discount warnings about the dollar’s future by people like Peter Schiff. But one only needs to look to the south to see that it not only could happen, it is. Venezuela was once […]

Fox Business: Idea That Fed Could Weaken the Dollar Is “Way Out There” (Video)

Deirdre Bolton of Fox Business’ Risk and Reward asked Peter Schiff about the alternative investments he recommends for protecting yourself from a crash in US stocks. They discussed foreign markets and gold investment, and Peter laid out his forecast for what the Federal Reserve will do next. She smiled and called his prediction of more […]

A Recovery Without Government: The Forgotten Depression (Audio)

Mises Weekends shared James Grant’s recent speech about his new book The Forgotten Depression. Mises Institute President Jeff Deist introduced Grant: [His book] chronicles the so-called ‘forgotten depression’ of 1920 and 1921 under the then Warren G. Harding administration. The reason it’s called the forgotten depression is because it was mercifully short… The Federal government […]

Thinking Like China and the Road to $64K Gold

A recent report by Bloomberg highlights that if China were to adopt a gold standard, it would look nothing like the traditional systems used in the past. Ken Hoffmann, Bloomberg’s Global Head of Metals & Mining Research, doesn’t believe conventional western wisdom can predict the actions China might take. In fact, he cautions that China […]

Metals Market Update: Yellen’s Dilemma

This article is 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. Metals have again found themselves very much range-bound this past month. Gold is trading between $1170 and $1230, and silver is bouncing back and forth between $15.75 […]

The Fed Is Blind to the Weakest Recovery in Post-War History (Video)

David Stockman, former Director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Reagan, told CNBC that the United States stock market is heading towards another crash. He bashed the Federal Reserve for being completely lost. He believes the Fed is driving the economy towards an even bigger financial crisis than the last one.