Peter’s Blog

Last week, we reported that billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller is publicly advising investors to sell United States stocks and buy gold. Druckenmiller is now joined in his gold recommendation by an equally legendary hedge fund manager – Paul Singer. In a client letter at the end of April, Singer wrote: It makes a great deal […]

Recently, we reported on the rapid collapse of pension systems, both public and private, across the United States. This is not only jeopardizing Americans’ retirement. Failing government pension systems are pulling several states down into a black hole with them. When we talk about government debt, we tend to focus on the US national debt. […]

Student loan debt continues to balloon. Data released in March revealed that 46% of student loans are not currently being repaid. That doesn’t even include debt held by students still in school or those within the six-month grace period after graduation. Clearly, this has major implications on the financial futures of Americans saddled with this […]

Bill Gross took a peek into the future in his most recent Monthly Investment Outlook for Janus Capital, and he saw money raining from the sky. Gross said he believes the structural changes currently occurring in the US economy will ultimately lead to so-called helicopter money. Of course, choppers wouldn’t literally drop cash from the […]

Silver demand hit a record high in 2015 and it shows no sign of waning. GFMS, in collaboration with the Silver Institute, released its annual silver survey last week. Coin, bar, jewelry, and photovoltaic sectors boosted silver sales to a record 1.17 billion ounces. High demand coupled with shrinking supply resulted in the third consecutive […]

Well, that didn’t take long. In February, we reported that a former Obama economic adviser/ex-Treasury Secretary had floated the idea of eliminating the $100 bill and the 500-euro note in the escalating war on cash. On Wednesday, the European Central bank announced it will stop producing and issuing 500-euro notes around the end of 2018. […]

Billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller didn’t mince words when asked for recommendations at the Sohn Investment Conference. Sell US stocks. Buy gold: The conference wants a specific recommendation from me. I guess ‘Get out of the stock market’ isn’t clear enough.” Druckenmiller went on to sing gold’s praises:

This Silver Institute has released its April issue of Silver News. This edition highlights exceptionally strong silver jewelry sales in the US. Silver jewelry sales in the United States were solid in 2015 with 60% of jewelry retailers reporting increased sales, according to a survey conducted on behalf of the Silver Institute’s Silver Promotion Service […]

As the Wall Street Journal put it, the debt crisis in Puerto Rico entered a “more perilous phase” after the Government Development Bank defaulted on a $422 million payment Monday: The missed principal payment, the largest so far by the island, is widely viewed on Wall Street as foreshadowing additional defaults this summer, when more […]

So much for that socialist paradise. Last summer we reported that hyperinflation had devalued the Venezuelan bolivar to the point that people were using 2-bolivar notes as napkins. In order to keep up with the rate of devaluation, the Venezuelan government literally flew in 747s full of cash. Now we’ve learned that the Venezuelan government […]