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Peter Schiff: Will 2021 Be the Year the Chickens Come Home to Roost?

There aren’t many people sad to see 2020 in the rearview mirror. But there’s no guarantee that 2021 is going to be any better. In his podcast final podcast of 2020, Peter Schiff said that hopefully, the upcoming year will be better healthwise in terms of COVID-19, but economically, this could be the year the […]

Peace Out 2020! SchiffGold Friday Gold Wrap Dec. 31, 2020

The year 2020 is coming to a merciful end. As it was with pretty much everything, it was a nutty year for the economy and the precious metals markets. We all hope 2021 will be better, but it seems unlikely that it will be any less nutty. In this special Thursday episode of the Friday […]

This Fed Policy Is “Scandalous”

Peter Schiff has been saying that all of the “help” the US government and the Federal Reserve have offered up during the coronavirus pandemic isn’t helping. In fact, it’s made the situation worse. In a podcast last month, Peter said that all of the money printing and stimulus allowed people to keep spending, but they […]

Ron Paul: The Great Crackup Is Coming

Peter Schiff has been driving home the fact that the Fed’s extraordinary monetary policy isn’t helping the economy. In fact, it’s setting the stage to destroy it. Peter points out that the Fed seems to think inflation is the cure for what ails us. That means the monetary and fiscal policies that resulted from COVID […]

Price Inflation Doesn’t Tell the Whole Story

The Federal Reserve has increased the money supply by an astounding amount. This is by definition inflation. But the mainstream insists this isn’t a problem because we haven’t seen a big jump in the consumer price index. CPI has been creeping up, but it hasn’t reached the mythical 2% level. The Fed has signaled it […]

Taxpayers on the Hook for Nearly Half of Apartment Building Mortgages

This is not the ideal time to own an apartment building. Millions are struggling to pay rent and despite the extension of the federal eviction moratorium through Jan. 31 in the latest stimulus bill, a lot of people will likely face eviction in the coming months. According to data released in November, 17 million households […]

Peter Schiff: The Dollar’s Loss Is Not America’s Win

The big story last week was the dollar’s slow meltdown. The dollar index broke below 90 for the first time since the spring of 2018. The financial media hasn’t ignored the dollar weakness, but Peter said they don’t seem to grasp the significance of what’s going on, nor do they realize how much further the […]

Welcome to My Fed Talk: SchiffGold Friday Gold Wrap Dec. 18, 2020

The Federal Reserve held its last meeting of the year this week. There were no big surprises policy-wise. But Jerome Powell and company made it clear that the easy-money spigot will remain wide open pumping trillions of dollars created out of thin air into the economy. In this episode of the Friday Gold Wrap podcast, […]

Commerzbank: Gold Bull Run to Continue into 2021

Coronavirus vaccines began rolling out this week, boosting optimism that the economy will soon rebound. But as Peter Schiff said in a podcast last month, there is no vaccine for what ails the economy. Even if the vaccine proves effective and governments ease off the draconian policies they have implemented in response to the pandemic, […]

Distressed Commercial Real Estate Sales Could Eclipse Number After Financial Crisis

It appears the government lockdowns in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has hastened the deflation of the commercial real estate bubble. According to CoStar Group, an estimated $126 billion in commercial real estate will be forced to sell at distressed prices over the next two years. That will eclipse the amount of distressed commercial property […]