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Is It 2008 2.0? SchiffGold Friday Gold Wrap 09.07.18

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.

Gold and Silver Behaving A Lot Like They Did in 2008

The prices of gold and silver are behaving very much like they did in 2008. You remember what was happening in 2008, right? After the dot.com bubble burst, the Federal Reserve swooped in and dropped interest rates to an artificially low level. In the mid-2000s, the economy boomed and the housing bubble inflated driven by the sudden […]

Trade Wars! SchiffGold Friday Gold Wrap 08.31.18

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: Traders Are Beginning to See the Writing on the Wall

The US stock markets had another big day Wednesday with a number of the indexes, including the Nasdaq and the S&P 500, in record territory. So, what’s with the recent move up in US stock markets? Donald Trump and a lot of Republicans have been taking credit for it, saying their economic policies are causing […]

Jim Rogers Says We’re Heading Toward the Worst Bear Market in His Lifetime (Video)

Investment and commodities guru Jim Rogers says we’re heading toward the worst bear market in his lifetime. Rogers recently spoke a the MoneyShow in San Francisco. He said the first thing we need to understand is that in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, the Federal Reserve “came to the rescue” and drove interest rates […]

It’s Your Dime Interview with Mises Institute President Jeff Deist

SchiffGold’s It’s Your Dime features “straight talk” interviews with movers and shakers in the world of precious metals, investing and economics. In this episode, I talk with Mises Institute president Jeff Deist about Austrian economics, the Fed, Trumpanomics. the biggest threats to our freedom, and of course, gold.

Government Counterfeiting Squeezes Families, Not Capitalism

It’s all capitalisms fault! What is? Well, everything. At least that’s the narrative you get from the political left, and quite frankly, not infrequently from the political right.

Peter Schiff: The Fed Is Going to Let the Inflation Genie Out of the Bottle

Friday was an active day in the markets. The S&P 500, the Russell 2000 and the Nasdaq all hit record highs. The Dow Jones didn’t quite crack into record territory, but it was up over 100 points. Meanwhile, the dollar fell and gold was up more than $20. In his latest podcast, Peter Schiff said […]

The Whole Thing Could Fall Apart at Any Time

We are well into the third quarter of 2018. In our perpetual fast-forward world, analysts are already looking toward Q4. What will the last quarter of the year bring? It’s virtually impossible to predict the short-term. Who knows what kind of political event, natural disaster or emerging trend will drive the markets over the next […]

The $64,000 Question: SchiffGold Friday Gold Wrap 08.24.18

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.