Peter's Blog

In a recent interview on the Coin Telegraph YouTube channel, Peter takes aim at the growing use of leverage to buy Bitcoin, focusing on Strategy’s (formerly Microstrategy) debt-fueled strategy and its risks for ordinary investors. He warns that borrowing to buy a volatile asset creates fragile finance that can wipe out retirements, and he contrasts […]

While one of the main talking points of Schiffgold is the great damage of national debt, there does exist a positive place for debt in the world. National debt is a problem because it forces the people to bear a risk that they have no desire for or understanding of. The people’s lack of care […]

Consumer sentiment has hit an all-time low in America as the promises of Trumpenomics like a flood of tariff wealth, slashed income taxes, and lower prices are washed away by the tides of war, low growth, bad math, and money printing. Politicians want to be good at math when it serves them, and terrible at […]

Peter recently joined Alessandro from Risk Takers for an interview on gold’s recent price action, crypto, and the latest on the war with Iran. Peter stakes out a pragmatic position on the future of money: while he remains skeptical of cryptocurrencies as monetary replacements, he sees real potential in tokenized gold to make sound money […]

Federal Budget The Federal Government publishes the spending and revenue numbers on a monthly basis. The charts and tables below give an in-depth review of the Federal Budget, showing where the money is coming from, where it is going to, and the surplus or deficit. The government fiscal year closes at the end of September, […]

Money Supply is a very important indicator. It helps show how tight or loose current monetary conditions are regardless of what the Fed is doing with interest rates. Even if the Fed is tight, if Money Supply is increasing, it has an inflationary effect. One key metric shown below is the “Wenzel” 13-week annualized money […]

With the Trump administration increasingly desperate to create any illusion of prosperity, a new proposal was introduced to create federally-backed 50-year mortgages to make housing “more affordable.” The plan promises lower monthly payments that Trump says would open the door to millions of would-be buyers priced out of the current market.  But as ultra-long term […]

Last week was a revealing one for the economy, with turbulence on Wall Street and abysmally low consumer sentiment data coming in Friday. These are only the most visible signs of decades of government tinkering in the economy. With central banking, regulation, and extreme taxation plaguing the economy, the only possible outcome is economic collapse. […]

Gold’s third-quarter scorecard shows a tale of two markets. Overall U.S. demand leapt 58% year-over-year to 186 metric tons, the largest Q3 tonnage in more than a decade. Yet traditional consumer demand—jewellery plus bar & coin—actually shrank by a third to just 32 t. The gap was filled almost entirely by institutional money flooding into […]

Money Supply is a very important indicator. It helps show how tight or loose current monetary conditions are regardless of what the Fed is doing with interest rates. Even if the Fed is tight, if Money Supply is increasing, it has an inflationary effect. One key metric shown below is the “Wenzel” 13-week annualized money […]