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Peter Schiff: The Fed Has Never Been Right

Peter Schiff delivered a key-note speech at the Virtual Investor Day Conference. He walked through the history of the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy over the last several decades and explained the inevitable outcome. Peter’s recap of Fed history leads you to an undeniable conclusion: the Federal Reserve has never been right. And it has set […]

Fun on Friday: He Put 2 Pounds of Gold Where?

People will do just about anything to avoid paying taxes. Case in point – a man from Dubai shoved about 2 pounds of gold — where the sun don’t shine —  in order to avoid paying customs taxes in India. Yes. I said two pounds.

Where Are the Gold Bulls? SchiffGold Friday Gold Wrap Oct. 23, 2020

Gold has been trading sideways for several weeks. But there are all kinds of reasons to be bullish on the yellow metal. So why isn’t the price of gold rising faster? Where are the gold bulls? In this episode of the Friday Gold Wrap podcast, host Mike Maharrey tries to answer that question and discusses […]

Rickards: Why Gold?

Why gold? In a recent article, Jim Rickards offers three reasons the biggest gains in gold prices are yet to come.

These Jobs Ain’t Comin’ Back: SchiffGold Friday Gold Wrap Oct. 16, 2020

It’s been months since the US started to reopen after the government-imposed coronavirus shutdowns and yet hundreds of thousands of Americans continue to file for unemployment every week. In this episode of the Friday Gold Wrap podcast, host Mike Maharrey takes a close look at the labor market and concludes that a lot of these […]

Fun on Friday: A Moving Nightmare

I hate moving. We moved from Kentucky to Florida about a year ago. It wasn’t fun. It was stressful. I lost things. Now, imagine moving $11.7 billion in gold bars and coins.

What Is the Retail Mess Telling Us? SchiffGold Friday Gold Wrap Oct. 9, 2020

Regal Cinemas shut down all of its US theaters this week. The company said the closure is temporary, but it reveals the deeper strain in the retail sector. In this episode of the Friday Gold Wrap podcast, host Mike Maharrey digs deeper into the retail mess and talks about what it is telling us about […]

Seven Central Banks Increase Gold Reserves

Gold-buying by central banks has slowed from the record pace we saw in 2018 and 2019, but many countries continue to load up on the yellow metal. August saw the first net global decline in central bank gold holdings, but the number was skewed by a big sale by one central bank. Overall, seven countries […]

Fun on Friday: 2-Dimensional Gold?

If you have ever handled gold leaf, you know it’s pretty thin. Paper-thin, in fact. But did you know we can go thinner? In fact, scientists can take gold and silver into two dimensions. Sounds crazy, eh? Like flat earth or something. But the research team of Ulrich Starke and his former doctoral student Stiven […]

Stock Market Bubble X.0: SchiffGold Friday Gold Wrap June 5, 2020

The economy has gone through the quickest and arguably the deepest collapse in history, but the stock market has been rallying. How can this be? In this episode of the Friday Gold Wrap podcast, host Mike Maharrey says look no further than the Federal Reserve. Despite the economic chaos, it has managed to blow up […]