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May 27, 2026 Original Analysis

Historic Red Retirement Rates

Before the upcoming midterm elections, a record number of incumbent House Republicans are set to retire. Historical data suggests that this is going to make it extremely difficult for Republicans to hold onto the House. When a large number of incumbents retire or do not seek office, it is very difficult to gain lost ground […]

May 11, 2026 Interviews

Schiff w/ Diesen: Dollar Weakness Will Reshape Markets

In his latest interview with Glenn Diesen, Peter lays out a picture of an economy in which the post-war shock is only a temporary detour from a longer-running slide in the dollar. He ties energy prices, fiscal deficits, trade policy, and America’s fading industrial base together into a single theme: a weaker dollar and the […]

April 28, 2026 Peter's Podcast

Peter Schiff: We’re Burning Through Our Balance Sheet

On Friday’s episode of the Peter Schiff Show, Peter connects the dots between military spending, economic coercion, and what he sees as deeper flaws in U.S. monetary and fiscal policy. He warns that the U.S. is depleting physical and financial resources at the same time that the Fed’s structure and tariff politics create perverse incentives. […]

April 15, 2026 Original Analysis

Consumer Sentiment Has Never Been This Bad

Consumer sentiment has hit an all-time low in America as the promises of Trumpenomics like a flood of tariff wealth, slashed income taxes, and lower prices are washed away by the tides of war, low growth, bad math, and money printing. Politicians want to be good at math when it serves them, and terrible at […]

April 7, 2026 Peter's Podcast

Peter Schiff: Energy, Inflation, and Bad Policy Ahead

On Friday’s episode of The Peter Schiff Show, Peter lays out a bleak picture for the near-term U.S. economy: weak job gains, rising energy costs, and mounting commodity inflation that threaten to push real interest rates down and gold up. He also ties in geopolitical risks and a recent Supreme Court decision on tariffs to […]

April 3, 2026 Exploring Finance

TTM Trade Deficit Collapses to pre-2001 Levels Relative to GDP

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 […]

March 21, 2026 Interviews

Schiff vs. Every: Inflation and the Real Cost of War

On Tuesday, Peter appeared on a Zero Hedge debate with Michael Every and Dave Collum to lay out the economic consequences too many policymakers ignore. He argues that decades of monetary expansion, rising deficits and now war spending all point to higher inflation, a weaker economy, and a meaningful re-rating of assets — especially in […]

March 9, 2026 Interviews

Schiff w/ Diesen: War Will Wreck the Economy

In his latest interview with Glenn Diesen, Peter focuses on the economic fallout from the recent war and what it means for jobs, inflation, and the dollar. He argues policymakers are stampeding toward more debt and money printing at exactly the wrong time, which makes gold and silver an increasingly sensible hedge for savers who […]

March 6, 2026 Key Gold Headlines

Lagarde Warns of ‘Genuine Uncertainty’ as Gold Rockets Holds Over $5,000

European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde used the ECB’s 2026 Annual Global Risk Lecture in Bologna this week to deliver a stark message: “we are leaving a world where risk can be measured and modeled, and entering one of genuine uncertainty.” Her twin culprits are escalating geopolitical fragmentation and the break-neck spread of artificial intelligence. […]

March 3, 2026 Key Gold Headlines

Gold Brushes $5,400 as Tariffs Chill U.S. Factory Momentum

America’s manufacturing engine kept chugging in February, but it’s clearly running on thinner fuel. The S&P Global U.S. Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) dipped to 51.6, the softest reading in seven months and down from January’s 52.4. While any mark above 50 signals expansion, survey respondents pointed to brutal winter storms and fresh tariff levies […]

February 27, 2026 Interviews

Schiff on VRIC Media: Gold is the Tip of an Economic Iceberg 

On Wednesday, Peter appeared on VRIC Media for an interview with Darrell Thomas. Together they walk through why headline stock indexes give a false picture of economic health and why sound money matters more than ever. Peter also critiques political uses of market performance, lays out the real cost of tariffs and bad policy, and […]