Peter's Blog
Get the latest headlines, market analysis, and original content from SchiffGold.
Posts Tagged: “productivity“
Abandoning the Gold Standard Undermined Labor Productivity
Labor market productivity has been dropping for decades. And you can trace the plunge back to the demise of the gold standard. US labor market productivity plummeted in the third quarter of 2021. Revisions to the data showed a 5.2% drop in productivity, even worse than the dismal initial reading last month. It was the […]
Exclusive Weekly Email Updates
Peter Schiffs's Gold News
Original Analysis
Videos
Interviews
Guest Commentaries
Key Gold Headlines
Gold Scams Exposed
Exploring Finance
Peter Schiff: The Stock Market Is Overlooking Bad Economic and Political Data
Stock markets made new highs on Wednesday, but as Peter Schiff explained in his latest podcast, there are a lot of cracks under the surface. The markets are surging forward even as they overlook bad economic data and chilly political winds.
Peter Schiff Explains Why Sagging Productivity Is Bad News for Your Pocketbook
US productivity numbers for the first quarter of this year were disappointing, to say the least. Analysts expected Q1 productivity to rise by point 0.7%. Instead, it came in at nearly half that, rising by 0.4%. This was only a slight improvement over the 0.3% increase in the final quarter of 2017. There wasn’t a […]