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It’s Panic! SchiffGold Friday Gold Wrap March 13, 2020

It appears we’ve pretty much reached complete panic mode. The longest bull market in history came to an abrupt end on Wednesday. Wall Street followed up with another massive sell-off on Thursday.  The S&P 500 had its worst day since Black Monday in 1987. Even gold was down. Meanwhile, the Fed tried to stem the […]

Peter Schiff: The Fed Is Responsible for the Rise in the Stock Market

Peter Schiff recently appeared on SmallCap Power with Mark Bunting to talk about the stock market bubble. He said it’s the same type of bubble as 2008, only bigger. The source is the same. It’s artificially low interest rates. It’s quantitative easing. The central bank, the Federal Reserve, is responsible for the rise in the […]

How Long Can the Fed Keep the Party Going? SchiffGold Friday Gold Wrap Feb 7, 2020

Gold took a hit on Tuesday but held a key support level and rebounded as the week went on, even as stocks set new records. Why does gold continue to keep showing strength even with all the headwinds? Is it just coronavirus? Or is something else going on? Host Mike Maharrey talks about it in […]

Extreme Is the New Normal: SchiffGold Friday Gold Wrap Jan. 31, 2020

The Federal Reserve held its first FOMC meeting of 2020. It was mostly met with yawns as the Fed held rates steady, and despite a somewhat dovish tone, indicated that it probably wouldn’t make any moves on interest rates this year. We’ve grown so used to low interest rates that it barely registers that the […]

Fed Holds Interest Rates Steady; QE Marches On

The Federal Reserve held its first Federal Open Market Committee meeting this week. As expected, the central bank held interest rates steady but the overall posture of the Fed came off as rather dovish. Quantitative easing will continue into the near future and Fed Chairman Jerome Powell left the door open for future rate cuts. […]

The Fed “Out-Doves” Expectations While Doing Nothing

The Federal Reserve wrapped up its final Federal Open Market Committee meeting of 2019 on Wednesday doing pretty much what was expected — nothing. But in the processing of doing nothing, the central bank said a lot and managed to out-dove expectations. After cutting interest rates three times in 2019, the FOMC stood pat during […]

Quantitative Easing By Any Other Name…

Stocks have pushed to record highs in recent weeks. If you read the headlines, you’d think it was all about optimism for a trade deal. Or maybe just some general bullishness on the US economy. But Peter Schiff has said that’s not the real reason stocks have continued to climb. In fact, there are a  lot […]

Delicious Irony from the Fed: SchiffGold Friday Gold Wrap Nov. 29, 2019

Stock markets hit new highs again this week. If you believe the headlines, the bullishness on Wall Street is mostly a function of trade deal optimism. But there’s another factor driving stocks higher – easy money courtesy of Federal Reserve (not) quantitative easing. In this episode of the Friday Gold Wrap, host Mike Maharrey talks […]

A Silver Lining: SchiffGold Friday Gold Wrap Nov. 22

It’s been a pretty dreary week on Wall Street with another round of trade war pessimism. Otherwise, there hasn’t been a lot of economic news to roil markets and precious metals have remained pretty much rangebound. But host Mike Maharrey has a silver lining for you on this episode of the Friday Gold Wrap podcast, […]

Peter Schiff: There Are Bubbles Everywhere and They’re All Going to Pop

The Dow pushed above 28,000 on Friday. The Nasdaq also closed on a record high above 8,500, and the S&P 500 made a new record high of 3,120. This despite some more gloomy economic data that came out during the day. Industrial production dropped more than expected, falling by 0.8 in October. Inventory numbers were […]