Peter’s Blog

The British have gotten gold fever. According to a Reuters report, uncertainty surrounding the upcoming Brexit vote is driving quite a gold boom: At Sharps Pixley, a gold showroom in London’s smart Mayfair district, demand for bullion bars and coins is rising, with men and women of all ages buying up the safe-haven metal in […]

In an interview with the World Gold Council for the latest edition of Gold Investor, former Bank of England head Lord Mervyn King made the case that it’s sensible for central banks to buy and hold gold. Interestingly, the reasons he offered are good reasons for individual investors to buy gold as well. King addressed […]

The shockingly bad May jobs report dumped a bucket of cold water on central bankers and mainstream pundits. A June interest rate hike that was a foregone conclusion just a week ago disappeared like a teenager when it’s time to do the dishes. Suddenly, a lot of people are starting to realize the great Obama […]

Economists say election uncertainty is subduing economic growth. But it seems more likely the horrible economy is driving this strange election cycle. For months, Peter Schiff has been saying if the US isn’t already in recession, it will be in one soon. Former Reagan Office of Management and Budget Director David Stockman recently told Neil […]

If you’ve ever played Jenga, you know each player takes turns pulling blocks out of the core of a tower and then placing them on top. The tower gets less and less stable as the game goes on, until eventually it comes crashing down. This is kind of like what the Federal Reserve does with […]

Not long ago, a video surfaced featuring Democratic Party candidate Bernie Sanders claiming bread lines were a sign of good times. You know, it’s funny. Sometimes American journalists talk about how bad a country is when people are lining up for food. That’s a good thing. In other countries, people don’t line up for food. […]

Demand for physical gold and silver continues to surge with bullion coins flying out of the US Mint at a frenzied pace. May gold coin sales increased more than 206% over the same month last year. The mint sold 76,500 ounces of American Gold Eagles in May and 18,500 ounces of Gold Buffalos. That compares […]

The US faces a massive debt problem. We all know it. But politicians and government officials are either unwilling or incapable of doing anything about it. David Stockman mentioned the burden of debt in a recent interview with Neil Cavuto on Fox Business: We have $63 trillion of total debt in this economy. The public […]

Will you ever retire? More and more Americans will not. According to the latest data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, almost 20% of Americans 65 and older are still working. That’s the largest percentage of older Americans on the job since the early 1960s. With Baby Boomers hitting retirement age, it’s the largest […]

When you think about government, innovation isn’t exactly the first thing that comes to mind. Just last week, CNN reported that the US Department of Defense still uses 1970s era computing systems that require “eight-inch floppy disks.” Some of these ancient computers run US nuclear weapon systems: Such disks were already becoming obsolete by the […]