Peter Schiff shares his thoughts on the Federal Reserve’s meeting that concluded yesterday. He also takes a look at the official first quarter GDP figure, explaining the misleading data behind it.
In the second part of his interview with the Daily Bell, Peter Schiff discusses the economic dilemmas of Greece and the eurozone. He warns that the United States faces the same moral hazard of massive public debts that will be impossible to repay. Peter believes the Federal Reserve and American government will resort to currency inflation to deal with these debts.
Daily Bell asks Peter for the best strategy to protect one’s savings and investments from a US dollar currency crisis. Peter recommends physical precious metals and careful investments abroad. Read the first part of the interview here.
Peter Schiff just returned from a family vacation and starts his latest podcast by discussing his observations about Disney World. He goes on to review the latest economic data. Finally, Peter picks apart Paul Krugman’s latest commentary, which is largely a response to German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schauble’s rational, conservative economic advice.
The Daily Bell interviewed Peter Schiff last week and published the first half of their conversation yesterday. Peter explained why the United States economy isn’t recovering and why he blames the Federal Reserve.
Peter also answered a slew of other questions. Does Janet Yellen know that the Fed’s monetary policies have been destructive, or is she just very ignorant? Will the Federal Reserve raise interest rates soon, or will a dollar crisis force its hand? Why do US stocks continue to rise when American economic data remains so weak? Will the presidential race actually affect the economy and the Fed’s policies? Could Rand Paul make a difference as president?
Currency traders have been blaming the weak first quarter GDP on poor weather. Peter Schiff argues that they’re going to have to start looking for new excuses, because April data is starting to trickle in and it doesn’t look good at all.
China’s gold demand has exploded in the last few years as the Chinese government continued to liberalize its domestic gold market. Last year, foreign banks were given gold import licenses for the first time, and China opened a handful of new gold exchanges. However, China’s economic evolution stretches well beyond precious metals, as the West has seen in the recent boom in Chinese stock markets.
The financial media insists that Chinese stocks are in bubble territory and that Chinese economic growth of 7% is “disappointing.” In a new commentary from Euro Pacific Capital, Peter Schiff explains why the mainstream analysis is shortsighted when one looks at the history of the Hong Kong and Shanghai stock exchanges. Peter argues that with recent regulatory changes, Chinese markets have far stronger fundamentals than those in the West.
China Finally Stops Fighting the Stock Market
By Peter Schiff
Although China’s economy has been leading the world in annualized growth since the days that mobile phones had retractable antennas, there have always been some aspects of the country’s commercial and financial system that loudly broadcast the underlying illogic of a Communist Party’s firm control of burgeoning capitalism. China’s stock markets were one such venue where things just didn’t add up…literally.
One proposed solution to Greece’s European debt problem is for the Mediterranean country to abandon the euro and resurrect its old currency, the drachma. In his April Gold Videocast, Peter Schiff explains why a new drachma would be ideal for Greek politicians, but a disaster for Greek citizens and creditors. Peter also reveals why the United States faces the same debt dilemma as Greece. There’s just one major difference – the US already has a currency it can devalue.
On Friday, Peter Schiff looked back at a week of market rallies. While the US dollar strengthened, so did gold. In fact, gold approached a 2-year high in euros. Combined with the ongoing negative US economic data, this leads Peter to believe that there is a solid bottom in the gold market. At the end, Peter briefly notes that Ben Bernanke’s memoirs are due for release. Peter explains why he thinks the book should be shelved in the fiction section at your local bookstore.
Last week, the March jobs data finally began to match the rest of the terrible economic data in America. While analysts are blaming the lower-than-expected non-farm payroll numbers on poor weather, the employment picture is actually worse than the first quarter of last year when the “polar vortex” swept through the country. In his latest video blog, Peter Schiff dissects all of this data and explains what it means for Federal Reserve policy going forward.
The US markets are closed today, but the March jobs numbers were release this morning — 126,000 non-farm payroll jobs were created last month. The forecast was for 245,000 new jobs, so this is a terrible report that falls nearly 50% short of expectations.
Taking into account all the economic data thus far in 2015, it’s no wonder that the Atlanta Fed’s GDPNow metric puts 1st quarter GDP growth at 0%.
None of this comes as a surprise to Peter Schiff, who has been predicting this slow descent into another recession for some time. His podcast from earlier this week reviews the latest awful economic data and predicts the poor jobs numbers that we saw this morning.
