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Schiff on Mining Network: Trump is Packing the FOMC

Peter recently joined Peter Gadsdon from the Mining Network to discuss a grab-bag of issues, from the latest showdown between the Fed and the White House to why gold is still the best hedge against a weakening dollar. He walks listeners through recent inflation readings — including the CPI for December — and ties those […]

Why Rate Cuts Only Delay Economic Recovery

Politicians have tricked their citizens into believing that low interest rates will solve their economic troubles– perhaps by lowering housing prices or stimulating the economy out of a recession. In reality, slashing rates isn’t a cure to economic ailments; it’s a poison that corrupts saving and investment and raises prices across the economy. The following […]

Freedom in Money: Gold, Crypto, and the Fed

For the government to undermine a nation’s currency, as the Federal Reserve has done, a money printer isn’t enough. If the state truly wants to give its currency power, it must also wage ideological war against alternatives to fiat, like gold and silver, to prevent citizens from using sound money. The following article was originally […]

December CPI Pops 0.3%, Gold Brushes $4,600

After a two-month data void caused by Washington’s funding standoff, the Bureau of Labor Statistics finally dropped December’s Consumer Price Index—and the numbers refuse to play along with the “mission-accomplished” narrative on inflation. Headline CPI rose 0.3 percent for the month, lifting the index to 324 and pushing the yearly gain to 2.7 percent—still north […]

Metals Tell the Truth About the Economy

Gold and silver are sniffing out the inflationary regime. Rising together, even after pullbacks, the historic run in precious metals is part of a desperate SOS signal for the economy. The Fed isn’t the only one printing money. Trump is floating plans for 50-year mortgages and payments for veterans, seeking any justification for “stimulus” that […]

New Gold-ETF Data: Record Inflows Fuel Metal’s Best Year Since 1979

Gold closed out 2025 in runaway mode, notching fresh all-time highs on 53 trading days and sprinting to an intraday peak of $4,514 per ounce on the year’s final Friday. The blistering rally ignited a historic rush into physically backed exchange-traded funds (ETFs), which absorbed a record $89 billion and more than doubled global assets […]

October Trade Deficit Drops to Lowest Level since Great Financial Crisis

The Trade Deficit is one of the two components of the ‘twin deficits’; the other being the federal budget deficit. The trade deficit used to be a number that received a ton of attention in the 1980s and 1990s because it was determined to be a strong gauge of the strength and weakness in the […]

Why the Free Market is Not Taking Advantage of You

The central claim of this article is that aside from regulatory barriers, the market will never leave normal people in a worse state than they would be in without the market. This is made to combat the frequent claims that the market is unfair or that people would somehow be better off without it. Workers […]

Schiff on Coindesk: Gold Ain’t Broke. Don’t Fix It.

Last week, Peter joined Jennifer Sanasie on the CoinDesk YouTube channel to push back against the crypto crowd and explain why he thinks gold—not Bitcoin—will be the long-term safe haven. He walks through how gold’s breakout in 2024 carried into 2025, why central banks are buying bullion, and what true sound money really means in […]

Will the Silver Boom Raise the Price of Tech?

Silver is booming. So, is Elon Musk right that the industrial need for silver will reveal that recent price action is only a bubble?  Or will the rise continue, raising the price of technology in the process? One of the downstream effects of higher silver prices could certainly be higher prices for other goods that […]