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July 28, 2014Original Analysis

The Strange Case of German Gold – A Euro Pacific Exclusive

In an exclusive interview originally published in Euro Pacific Capital’s summer issue of The Global Investor Newsletter (found here), Andrew Schiff spoke with Peter Boehringer of the German Precious Metals Society about the latest false news reports concerning Germany’s gold repatriation efforts. A June 23 Bloomberg News story entitled “German Gold Stays in New York […]

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July 22, 2014Interviews

Americans… The Best Spenders of Other People’s Money (Video)

Fox Business spoke with Peter Schiff on “Money with Melissa Francis,” where Peter points out that it’s not the geopolitical events that investors should be worried about, but the failed monetary policy in the US. What I think American really have to worry about, at least from the perspective of an investor, is not what […]

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July 18, 2014Original Analysis

Rick Santelli vs. Conventional Ignorance (Video)

You may have seen the explosive debate between Rick Santelli and Steve Liesman on CNBC’s Halftime Report this week. Santelli admittedly “blew a gasket” when he began to challenge the conventional “wisdom” that the Federal Reserve has actually helped the economy with its quantitative easing. So was Santelli completely off-base? Has the Fed’s stimulus been […]

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June 10, 2014Original Analysis

The Platinum Supply Shock

By Peter Schiff Even investors who typically eschew precious metals have been hard-pressed to ignore the platinum industry this year. The longest strike in South African history paired with surging Asian demand is set to push the metal back into a physical deficit in 2014 – and could have repercussions for years to come. While […]

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May 1, 2014Original Analysis

The Gold Price is Fixed. So What?

By Peter Schiff We can’t ignore it anymore – the markets are rigged. The LIBOR scandal broke almost two years ago, and the banks found responsible for manipulating that key index are still dealing with lawsuits. Meanwhile, allegations of gold market manipulation have been simmering for over a decade and grew into an inferno after […]

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April 2, 2014Original Analysis

The Stealth Rally: Gold Under the Radar

By Peter Schiff So far, 2014 has been a paradoxical year for gold. Many investors aren’t even aware that it has rallied more than 7%. On the rare occasion that the financial media mentions the yellow metal, it is only in the context of comparing the recent rise to last year’s decline. In spite of […]

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March 10, 2014Original Analysis

Weather or Not?

In his latest commentary, Peter Schiff pokes holes in the theory that the polar vortex and exceptionally cold winter is solely responsible for the poor economic data of the past several months. Peter argues that economists and the media are blowing a lot of hot… er, cold air to convince the public that the economy […]

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March 6, 2014Original Analysis

Gold Scams Revisited

By Peter Schiff Before Bear Stearns and Lehman collapsed, the market for physical gold was limited to a relatively small group of investors who understood the havoc inflation was wreaking on our savings and the US markets. As the financial crisis took hold, a flood of new and inexperienced buyers entered the market, creating an […]

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March 6, 2014Original Analysis

The Great Gold Redemption

By Peter Schiff The most puzzling part of the investment business is seeing how the vast and largely economically illiterate masses interpret any given piece of news. Take the recent gold selloff: many large players were motivated to sell by news that Cyprus will have to liquidate its gold stockpiles to pay off acute debt […]

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