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The Powell Put Is On! SchiffGold Friday Gold Wrap 02.01.19

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: The Powell Pause Won’t Be Enough

The Federal Reserve Open Market Committee met yesterday and held interest rates steady in the 2.25-2.50% range. This wasn’t really a surprise. More significantly, Fed Chair Jerome Powell kept up the dovish rhetoric, saying, “The case for rate increases has diminished. I would need to see a reason for further rate hikes that would have […]

Peter Schiff: Fed Capitulation Is Just the First Piece of the Puzzle

Stocks got a boost on Friday and gold rose 1.8% on further signs that the Federal Reserve is capitulating. An article in the Wall Street Journal basically confirmed the Fed is now thinking about winding down its quantitative tightening program. As a CNBC headline put it, “The Fed may be moving closer to ending its […]

Existing Home Sales Plunge; Biggest Year-on-Year Drop Since 2011

Here’s another sign that the air is coming out of housing bubble 2.0. Existing home sales fell 10.3% year-on-year in December. Sales, including single-family houses, townhouses, condos, and co-ops, dropped to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.99 million homes, according to the National Association of Realtors. This ranks as the biggest year-over-year drop since May […]

Peter Schiff: The Recession Is a Done Deal

US stock markets had a strong week last week. The Dow Jones capped it off gaining more than 300 points on Friday. Optimism about a trade deal with China along with increasing expectations that the Federal Reserve will slow the pace of interest rate hikes buoyed the markets. This has led many pundits to declare […]

To All You Scoffers: Friday Gold Wrap 01.18.19

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.

Jim Grant: We Live in a Most Extraordinary Moment of Monetary Manipulation (Video)

The Federal Reserve bases its monetary policy decisions on where it thinks the economy is heading. The $64,000 question is how does it know? Or to put it another way, what makes us think a panel made up of a few economists and policy wonks can accurately predict the future and then make the “right” […]

Peter Schiff: The Eye of the Financial Hurricane

Stock markets appear to have stabilized after a “December to remember.” But in his most recent podcast, Peter Schiff said we’re really just in the eye of a financial hurricane. The selloff began after the September Fed rate hike. At the time, Peter called it the hike that broke the camel’s back. The market plunged in […]

Peter Schiff: Gold Is Going to Shine in 2019 (Video)

Peter Schiff has said it’s not that we have a “volatile” economy right now. We have a bubble economy, and we are at the beginning of a much bigger crisis than we went through in 2008. Peter continued with this theme on a recent appearance on Kitco News with Daniela Cambone noting that things are setting […]

What’s Up With Fed Chair Jerome Powell? Friday Gold Wrap 1.11.19

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.