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Stockman: Wall Street’s Disconnect from Main Street Is Unsustainable

In a podcast last week, Peter Schiff said rookie Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell couldn’t be more wrong about the economy. He sees smooth sailing ahead. Peter sees a storm. Former Reagan Office of Budget Management director David Stockman made a similar observation in a column last week. What’s ahead is tumult, not smooth. That’s because […]

Gold and Silver on Sale: SchiffGold Friday Gold Wrap 02:23:18

The SchiffGold Friday Gold Wrap podcast combines a succinct summary of the week’s precious metals news coupled with thoughtful analysis. You can subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.

Peter Schiff: Gold Is Going to Go Ballistic (Video)

Ten-year Treasury yields flirted with 3% this week, hitting a four-year high of 2.95. Does the Treasury yield hold the leash of the stock market? Peter Schiff talked about it in an interview with Liz Claman on Fox Business, saying the Fed has kept rates artificially low for years, but given current conditions, it’s inevitable […]

Analysis: Where Bonds Go, Stocks Will Follow and They’re Going Down

During a podcast last month, Peter Schiff asked a key question: who is going to buy all of the debt necessary to finance the ballooning US deficit? In his most recent analysis, Dan Kurtz at DK Analytics explores this question more in-depth and comes to generally the same conclusion. The dollar has lost more than […]

Federal Debt: A Cancer on Economic Growth

The mainstream investment world is starting to worry about the federal debt. CNBC put it this way: Goldman Sachs sees a tidal wave of red ink — and it may drag the US economy into its undertow.” Goldman recently released a note to clients saying virtually the same thing Peter Schiff has been saying for […]

Peter Schiff: We’re Ripe for a 1987-Style Crash (Video)

Stock markets have settled down after an awful couple of weeks earlier this month.  On Feb. 5, the Dow Jones suffered its largest-ever drop in terms of points. It was down 1,600 at one point and ultimately lost 1,175.21 points, a 4.6% drop that day. At one point during that week, the Dow was off […]

Bond Yields Up, Dollar Down…What Gives?

The US dollar dropped to its lowest level in three years Friday. Extending losses on Thursday, the dollar index against a basket of six currencies dropped to 88.253. This marks its lowest level since December 2014. A Reuters report noted that “Traders’ confidence in the dollar has also been eroded by mounting worries over the United […]

Peter Schiff on GOP Hypocrisy, the Bond Market and Gold

The Babylon Bee captured the current state of the Republican Party in all of its hypocritical glory. The satirical website proclaimed “Republicans announce plan to pretend to be fiscally conservative again the moment a Democrat takes office.” The GOP said it would begin to decry deficit spending and the $20 trillion debt in order to […]

Deficits Don’t Matter? Fake News! SchiffGold Friday Gold Wrap Podcast 02.09.18

The SchiffGold Friday Gold Wrap podcast combines a succinct summary of the week’s precious metals news coupled with thoughtful analysis. You can subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.

Government Spending Going Up; Interest Rates Going Up; Stock Market Going Down

The bears were running on Wall Street again Thursday, as the Dow Jones suffered another steep tumble. After a record drop of  1,175 points Tuesday and a rebound Wednesday, the Dow shed another 1,333 points. The Dow Jones dropped 6.5% in four days. That’s the steepest decline in any week since October 2008. The S&P 500 […]