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Nope! Everything Is Not Great: SchiffGold Friday Gold Wrap 03.16.18

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.

China and Japan’s Nuclear Option in the Pending Trade War

China, Japan and some other countries have a nuclear option they could use in the pending trade war. If deployed, it could serve as the pin that pops the stock market bubble. At the same time, it could put the US government in a nasty spot as it tries to fund its profligate spending and upward […]

Peter Schiff: The Party Is Over (Video)

We’ve been talking a lot about the rising levels of debt – both government and household. Set in an environment of rising interest rates, this is a huge problem very few people seem concerned about. We’ve been enjoying a big party and it’s about to come to an abrupt end.

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 […]

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 […]

Retail Sales Tank: Is The House of Credit Cards About to Collapse?

Could the house of credit cards Americans have built be on the verge of collapse? Earlier this week, the New York Fed released the latest data on US household debt, revealing it has grown to a record $13 trillion. Americans have been spending, but they’ve been putting a lot of it on plastic. Credit card balances […]

Total Household Debt Hit Record $13 Trillion in 2017

Passage of a GOP budget that added $300 billion in new spending has focused plenty of attention on surging federal government debt over the last week or so. But Uncle Sam isn’t the only one running up those credit cards. Everyday Americans are also piling on the debt. Total household debt soared to a record $13 trillion […]

Jim Rogers Predicts Worst Bear Market in Our Lifetime

Investor Jim Rogers has seen a lot in 75 years. So when he starts talking about the worst bear market in our lifetime, we probably ought to sit up and take notice. And that’s exactly what Rogers said in a recent phone interview with Bloomberg. When we have a bear market again, and we are […]

Who Is Going to Buy All This US Debt?

During a podcast last week, Peter Schiff asked a key question: Who is going to buy all of this US debt? The US Treasury Department plans to auction off around $1.4 trillion in Treasuries this year. And it won’t end there. The department expects that pace of borrowing to continue over the next several years. […]