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Loose Money, Tight Money, and the Illusion of Control
With the Fed’s latest rate cut still in view, economic fallacies abound. Policymakers and talking heads speak of monetary policy as a lever that can be flipped back and forth without issue. But, as the Austrian school demonstrates, simply reversing monetary course cannot undo the malinvestment caused by easy money. The following article was originally […]

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Peter Schiff: Gold at $4,000 Is a Warning
Peter spends Wednesday’s podcast unpacking gold’s recent milestone and tracing how decades of monetary policy produced the moment we’re in now. He connects December futures breaking the $4,000 headline to the deeper story of the post-1971 dollar regime, sanctions-driven de-dollarization, and what he sees as an unavoidable market reckoning ahead. He opens by correcting a […]

Measure Assets in Gold, Not Dollars
A new round of tariff announcements from the Trump administration sent markets reeling, with cold coming down from its all-time high over $4,050, only to settle above $4,000, signaling collective doubt in the system itself as investors rush to protect themselves with hard assets. Collectively, markets are reaffirming gold’s role at the center of sovereignty, […]

The Fed Wouldn’t Cut it as a Normal Bank
The Fed is governed by institutional rules that separate it in operation and incentive from all other banks. Rather than being driven by profit and benevolence, it is ruled by a convoluted system of spoken and unspoken incentives that are often at odds with one another. The purpose of the Fed is nominally to keep […]

The Underlying Theory Behind Really, Really, Bad Predictions
What do the biggest banks, the most prominent news outlets, and advanced AI models have in common? They were all wrong about the 2025 gold price by over $1000. While there is always a lot of uncertainty in the financial markets, being off by over $1000(over 30% of gold’s 2024 year-end price), is embarrassing. While […]

Schiff on Triangle Investor: Gold Warns the Dollar Is Losing Its Grip
Peter appears on Triangle Investor Interviews to unpack the recent surge in precious metals and what it reveals about confidence in the U.S. dollar. He ties gold’s rapid advance to failures in fiscal and monetary policy, and he raises questions about the future of both tokenized assets and Bitcoin compared with real, physical bullion. He […]

Peter Schiff: Shutdown Hides Jobs Losses
On Friday’s episode of The Peter Schiff Show, Peter dissects a strange Friday in which the headline non-farm payrolls report never arrived because of the government shutdown. He links the missing data to an alarming private-payroll print, explains why the stock market is celebrating weakness for the wrong reasons, and reminds listeners that gold — […]

Schiff on Soar Financially: Rate Cuts Will Fuel Inflation
Last week, Peter joined the Soar Financially channel to lay out a clear warning: the Fed’s hoped-for rate cuts won’t rescue growth, they’ll stoke inflation and leave the economy worse off. He connects loose monetary policy to fiscal excess, presidential meddling, and a renewed flight into gold — a classic signal that sound money advocates […]

Why the Establishment’s Fear of Trump’s Fed Moves Is About Optics, Not Economics
President Trump’s highly publicized feud with Fed Governor Lisa Cook has recently frightened establishment finance types. With all the pearl-clutching surrounding the Fed’s independence, it’s easy to forget that everything the Fed already does is politically motivated. The following article was originally published by the Mises Institute. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those […]

The Myth of the “Elastic” Currency: Why the Economy Never Needed It
One of the most pernicious myths about central banking is its necessity to expand and contract the money supply to facilitate the “needs of trade.” But, as the Austrian School of Economics demonstrates, a static money supply is perfectly fine for trade, and it doesn’t entail the destructive inflation that comes with central bankers. The […]

Powell’s Rate Cut Explainer Sends Gold Near $3,800
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell took the podium in Warwick, Rhode Island on September 23rd to explain why policymakers trimmed the federal funds target another 25 basis points last week. Speaking to the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce, Powell said the new 4.00–4.25 percent range moves policy “toward a more neutral stance.” Yet in the […]