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Fed Might Begin Thinking about Maybe Raising Rates Possibly in the Future (Audio)

After her testimony to Congress this week, the mainstream media reported that Janet Yellen has put the Federal Reserve on the path to raising interest rates. However, Peter Schiff digs into Yellen’s official testimony from this week, showing beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Fed hasn’t even begun to think about a rate […]

Central Banks Are Fully Committed to Radical Intervention (Video)

James Grant, Founder of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, spoke with Kitco about his disappointment in the current price of gold. He places most of the blame on central banking, and the market’s inability to understand the long-term consequences of monetary manipulation. However, Grant believes it won’t be long before the world wakes up to the […]

Precious Metals Manipulation & Physical Investment

The US Justice Department has begun to investigate whether 10 of the world’s largest banks have manipulated gold and silver prices. The Justice Department is just the latest in a series of financial regulators to investigate possibilities of precious metals manipulation, including the UK Financial Conduct Authority, Germany’s BaFin, and Switzerland’s competition commission WEKO. On […]

Is the Golden Age of American Growth Over?

The Dow and S&P 500 once again closed at record highs last Friday, and investors continue to be bullish on the American economy. Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Shiller sees things differently and has been warning of market bubbles. A bubble is a social epidemic of enthusiasm and excitement spread by word of mouth, attracting more […]

China Consuming More Gold than World Produces

374 metric tons of gold were withdrawn from the Shanghai Gold Exchange (SGE) in the first 6 weeks of 2015. During the same period, about 300 tons of gold were newly mined in the entire world. Using these figures, China is currently consuming more gold than the world is producing. The surge in Chinese gold […]

US Headed to Recession in 2015

ADS Securities Chief Market Strategist Nour Eldeen Al-Hammoury explained to Bloomberg why he’s betting on the United States sliding back into recession in 2015. Just like Peter Schiff, he finds the GDP, factory orders, trade deficit, and other economic data points to be much more indicative of the true health of the economy than the […]

John Paulson Sticks to Gold, Defying Market Sentiment

Renowned hedge fund manager John Paulson is committed to gold. A new government filing from Paulson & Co. shows that as of December 31st, it remains the largest holder in the SPDR Gold Trust (GLD). It owns 10.33 million shares of GLD, the biggest gold exchange-traded fund in the world. Paulson’s company has maintained this […]

Look for Gold-Backed Currencies in Next 10 Years (Video)

Eric Sprott, the well-known billionaire asset manager, believes that investors need to buy gold and silver to protect themselves from the increasingly volatile currency markets. Last year, 84% of the world’s population would have made money owning gold. Sprott puts his money where his mouth is, claiming that 80% of his assets are in precious […]

The Unseen Consequences of Wal-Mart’s Wage Hike (Video)

Wal-Mart announced yesterday that it is going to raise its minimum wage to $9 an hour, which will affect a half-million employees. Many are praising the company and saying this will improve the lives of low-wage workers, while also providing a boost to the American economy. However, Peter Schiff isn’t so optimistic. He explained to […]

Proof of the “Job-Sharing” Economy

In his new Gold Videocast, Peter Schiff explained how Obamacare has created a “job-sharing” economy that is skewing the government’s employment data. As he put it: Obamacare forces employers to provide insurance for full-time employees. As a result, employers are hiring more part-time workers than they normally would and that is substantially influencing these numbers… […]