The Mises Institute has released the second part of an exclusive interview between its President Jeff Deist and Patrick Barron, a private banking industry consultant. Find the first part of this engrossing interview here. In this second half, Deist and Barron discuss:
- How US dollar supremacy might come to an end with a whimper, instead of a bang.
- How the Bundesbank is a potential savior for the world monetary order, while the IMF is a paper tiger.
- How elites will have an increasingly hard time denying gold its role in the global monetary system.
- How America’s fiat dollar corrupts cultures, as well as economies.
Last week, gold and silver analyst Dan Popescu interviewed Egon von Greyerz, Founder and Managing Partner of Matterhorn Asset Management. They spoke at length about the upcoming Swiss Gold Referendum, which we’ve previously reported on here and here. Von Greyerz provides great insight into the Swiss mindset and the importance of gold for central banks around the world. At the end of the interview, he even weighed in on the massive flow of physical gold from the West to China.
Jim Rickards, author of The Death of Money, spoke with Erin Ade on RT’s Boom Bust this week. He explained why central banks around the world are incapable of preventing the inevitable fallout of the current international currency wars. Rickards isn’t sure what will trigger the next big crisis – a debt crisis in the United States, a panic in China, or the coming Swiss Gold Referendum at the end of the November.
Peter Schiff appeared on CNBC’s Futures Now this afternoon to defend his record on gold. Things got heated, because it seems the stock traders can’t wrap their heads around the strategy of holding physical gold and silver bullion as a long-term hedge against inflation in a well-diversified portfolio. Instead, they’re intent on blasting Peter for not being able to exactly predict when the precious metal will reach new highs.
Of course, Peter is basing his predictions on a fundamental analysis of the American economy and not on short-term technical indicators. Investors who buy gold for a quick profit don’t understand the reason for holding gold in the first place. At the end, Peter tries to point out that history is going to repeat itself – just as the traders missed the 2007 financial crisis, they’re going to be blindsided by the next crash. Enjoy a full transcript of Peter’s responses below the video.
Independent financial journalist Lars Schall interviewed Keith Barron, an exploration geologist and mining entrepreneur with 30 years experience in the industry. Barron believes we’ve seen “peak gold,” which is the point when overall world gold production begins to decline.
Barron emphasizes what a hard time it is for mining companies, but also stresses how dependent the gold price is on paper gold investments. He reasons that this will change, and physical gold will return to power in the coming years when the world realizes that there is more physical gold promised to ETF investors than actually exists. What to do? Buy physical gold and silver now, before it shoots up to $5000 or higher. Enjoy the interview, with a partial transcription below.
Rick Santelli interviewed Peter Schiff on CNBC’s Santelli Exchange yesterday. Their brief conversation got right to the heart of America’s economic problems. While Santelli seems to agree that the Federal Reserve cannot successfully unwind its quantitative easing programs, he asks Peter to focus on the seeming improvements in the economy in the past couple years. Peter helps connect the dots, showing that both the supposed recovery and the coming crash are direct results of the Fed’s cheap money. Enjoy the full transcript below.
On Friday, Fox Business spoke with Peter Schiff about the latest economic analysis from the Federal Reserve. Richard Fisher, President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, believes that the US economy is improving and that interest rates will be raised beginning in 2015. Peter, on the other hand, points out that Fed officials are either incompetent or lying.
Watch the video below and scroll down for a transcript of Peter’s comments.
Greg Hunter of USAWatchdog interview Jim Rickards, author of The Death of Money. While they began by talking about the Islamic State and United States foreign policy, they moved on to discuss the possible “black swan” events that could crash the global markets. Rickards prefers the metaphor of the snowflake and the avalanche to that of the black swan, because he believes it is very easy to understand that a collapse is inevitable. The foundation of the avalanche is already there, but the snowflake that will trigger that avalanche could come unexpectedly. His number one piece of advice for investors is to buy physical gold and silver.
Enjoy the video below, and scroll down to see read some highlights from the interview.
Back in September, Peter Schiff was interviewed by Anthony Wile of The Daily Bell. We posted a segment of the interview last week. In this second part, Peter elaborates on the true drivers of the American economy, his strategy for physical precious metals investment, the war on drugs, and the economic troubles of Europe.
Daily Bell: What’s driving the market – fundamentals? We think it’s almost purely monetary policy these days.
Peter Schiff: It’s just cheap money. That’s all that’s driving it. It’s inflation. You can say to some degree it’s about earnings, but earnings are a function of share buybacks. Companies are buying back stock and they only can afford to do that because they can borrow so cheaply, so it’s stock buybacks that are driving earnings from share growth, not topline revenue growth. And of course, the other thing that’s sustaining earnings is that corporate debt service is so low. Despite a record amount of debt on corporate balance sheets, their debt service costs are so low that’s adding to their earnings. That’s the same thing that’s happening with the federal government. Despite the fact that we have a record national debt, the interest payments that we make per year are lower than we made in Ronald Reagan’s presidency, even though the debt was a fraction of its current size and that’s because the carrying costs are so low. I recently completed a 30-page report on this topic called “Taxed By Debt”, with a lot more information than we have time to go into here.
Chris Waltzek invited Peter Schiff onto GoldSeek.com Radio this last week to talk about the rebranding of Euro Pacific Precious Metals to SchiffGold. Peter explains the reasoning behind the brand change and why investors should avoid buying numismatic and collectible precious metals products. He then goes on to discuss his expectations for the US economy for the rest of 2014. He shares his 2014 predictions for the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy, as well as the price of physical gold. Enjoy the audio and full transcript below.
