Peter's Blog

On Tuesday’s episode of the Peter Schiff Show, Peter dismantles the claim that President Trump would end America’s wars and lays out why the recent escalation with Iran marks a sharp break from those promises. He moves from constitutional objections to the political incentives that promote conflict, and finishes by warning about the economic fallout […]

Out: Foreign minister, two vice premiers, three ministers, a Presidential Office official, and the head of the State Property fund.  In: Ukraine’s “victory plan.”

Yesterday marked the anniversary of the great government gold heist of 1933 ordered by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. On April 5, 1933, the president signed Executive Order 6102. It was touted as a measure to stop gold hoarding, but it was in reality, a massive gold confiscation scheme. The order required private citizens, partnerships, associations […]

Loose monetary policy has dumped billions of dollars of easy money into the world’s financial systems over the last eight years, pumping up a whole slew of bubbles. We are still on the upside of the business cycle, with stock markets hitting record levels it seems like on a daily basis. But if history serves […]

Over the last year, we’ve talked a lot about geopolitical risk. Could turmoil around the world now be the new normal? Some analysts think so.