Peter's Blog

People love to lie to themselves, particularly about themselves. This has been true throughout all of history, and it is now revealing itself to be even more true because of incredible material abundance and new technologies. Artificial intelligence is explicitly sycophantic, but there has always been a large market for things that can increase the […]

As Kevin Warsh takes over as Fed chair, his stated preference for narrower, trimmed inflation measures is drawing scrutiny, and for good reason. Though it is technically correct that government-driven price hikes from wars, lockdowns, and years of interventionist policy are not “inflation” in the strict monetary sense, Warsh’s push to exclude them from the […]

Earlier this week, Peter joined Danny on CapitalCosm to warn that a dangerous combo of higher energy prices and rising interest rates is squeezing Americans and shifting investor behavior. He connects those forces to a renewed move into gold and silver as hedges, lays out the likely political fallout for Republicans in the midterms, and […]

Peter opens Wednesday’s episode of the Peter Schiff Show by describing the difficult hand dealt to new Fed chair Kevin Warsh. He then walks listeners through recent startling inflation data, interest-rate math, and what that means for the dollar and precious metals. He closes by defending market-driven change and the role of the consumer in […]

The current Federal reserve board chairman and his successor share a very specific trajectory. They both went to an Ivy League for undergrad, got elite law degrees, went into the banking industry, and then transitioned to the public sphere. Their specific path should not be surprising to anyone, but we must critically ask whether people […]

Speculation continues to swirl around the question of who President Trump will appoint as Federal Reserve Chair when Janet Yellen’s term comes to an end in February. Trump will reportedly meet with Yellen this week to discuss the possibility of her staying on as the head of the central bank. During the presidential campaign, Trump […]