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When Gold Takes Off, There Won’t Be Enough to Go Around (Video)

Jim Rickards spoke with Daniela Cambone on Kitco News about what he thinks 2015 will hold for the price of gold and the United States dollar. Rickards reminds us that we’re in a long-term currency war that could continue for years. There’s a good chance that gold will be needed to bring back confidence in […]

Gold Is Your Only Protection from Counterparty Risk (Audio)

Chris Waltzek interviewed John Embry on GoldSeek Radio this week. Embry is Chief Investment Strategist at Sprott Asset Management and shares many of Peter Schiff’s views on the United States economy, which he believes is heading towards a currency crisis. He emphasized what a great opportunity investors have right now to get into precious metals […]

Could 2015 See the Real Crash Peter Schiff Predicted? (Audio)

Peter Schiff had a very honest conversation about his predictions in his best-selling book The Real Crash with Wall Street Daily founder Robert Williams. Williams started the interview by reminding the audience that while Peter is widely acknowledged for accurately predicting the 2008 financial crisis, few people remember what Peter’s bigger prediction is – that the […]

This Month in Gold – December 2014

China May Ease Gold Import Rules Bloomberg – The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) is considering a plan to allow qualified miners and more banks to import gold. The intention is to attract more foreign investors and get China more involved in world markets. Chinese miners would be incentivized to “explore opportunities overseas,” said Wallace […]

Gold Beat Every Currency but the US Dollar in 2014

World currencies lost a lot of value in 2014. If you lived outside the United States, you would have done much better holding gold rather than local cash this past year. Check out this chart from The Market Oracle: Eventually the Federal Reserve will be unable to artificially prop-up the US dollar. When that happens, […]

Alan Greenspan: Don’t Get Your Hopes Up for US Growth

Back in the fall, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan stirred things up by making some public statements about the importance of gold, calling it “the premier currency, where no fiat currency, including the dollar, can match it…” Greenspan also indicated that he believes the Fed’s balance sheet will eventually catch fire and ignite some […]

Housing Market on Shaky Ground (Video)

While few are as blunt as Peter Schiff in warning of another bubble in real estate, mainstream analysts are starting to worry that the US housing market isn’t as strong as many believe. Peter warns that rising home prices are a product of extremely low interest rates suppressed by the Federal Reserve. Robert Shiller, Nobel […]

What If Oil Is Just the First of Many Bubbles? (Video)

Peter Schiff appeared on Fox Business to explain why the bursting of the oil sector bubble could be the first of many collapsing bubbles that will push the United States economy back into recession.

CNBC Traders: Why to Buy Gold in 2015 (Video)

We were surprised to see mainstream stock speculators actually recommending gold as a good buy last week. On Friday, stock traders on CNBC argued the bull and bear case for the yellow metal, and the bull won. He touched on two of the key fundamentals supporting gold: the ongoing international currency war and huge physical […]

Don’t Get Your Hopes Up for Q4 GDP (Audio)

Everybody is talking about how strong the United States economy is based upon the upward revision of GDP growth to 5% in the third quarter. In his latest podcast, Peter Schiff digs into the data underlying the third-quarter GDP, as well as the economic data that could tell us what to expect for fourth-quarter GDP […]