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The Bureau of Labor Statistics dropped a quiet bombshell on September 9, unveiling a preliminary benchmark revision that erased 911,000 jobs from March 2025 payroll tallies. The 0.6% markdown is roughly triple the average adjustment of the past decade and instantly casts doubt on months of breezy “resilient labor market” headlines. Almost the entire shortfall […]

On Monday’s episode of the Commodity Culture podcast, Peter joins host Jesse Day and walks listeners through what he sees as a pivotal moment for precious metals and for the dollar. He argues that gold quietly began a new leg of its bull market in 2024, that the labor market is weaker than officials admit, […]

After its Bitcoin-buying spree, El Salvador has made its largest gold purchase in over three decades, diversifying its holdings into real money. Across the world, Bitcoin evangelists are joining central banks and funneling capital into history’s one and only hard money asset. If they were smart, El Salvador would trade all their so-called “digital gold” […]

From 2003 to 2014, Deutsche Bank manipulated the daily price of gold. In the past, they set gold prices in conjunction with four other banks through phone calls, and they positioned themselves before releasing the prices to the public. Of course, this archaic means of price-setting was done away with, but this situation showed gold […]

According to a report from the World Gold Council, global investors poured another US$5.5 billion into physically backed gold exchange-traded funds (ETFs) during August, extending a three-month buying streak and pushing total assets under management (AUM) to a record US$407 billion. Holdings climbed by 53 tonnes to 3,692 tonnes—the highest month-end tally since mid-2022—even as […]

On his latest podcast, Peter takes aim at a string of recent policy choices that are undermining the dollar, inflating asset bubbles, and exposing taxpayers to risk. He walks through the latest jobs data, the anomaly of easing into an inflationary cycle, the privatization of profits at the expense of public losses, and the constitutional […]

The analysis below covers the Employment picture released on the first Friday of every month. While most of the attention goes to the Headline Report, it can be helpful to look at the details, revisions, and other reports to get a better gauge of what is really going on.  Current Trends  The jobs report showed […]

Gold just traded above $3,600 for the first time ever, and silver is surging past $41! In this short Shift Gold Friday Market Wrap, Peter Schiff breaks down the incredible gains this week: Peter highlights the key catalysts behind this leg of the bull market and why the fourth quarter could be the strongest yet. […]

Gold hit a fresh record high in the wake of Jerome Powell’s dovish comments that the Fed will consider cutting interest rates at its upcoming September FOMC meeting. As the Fed is forced into accommodative policy and possibly even eventual QE, get ready for even more record highs for the yellow metal. But just don’t […]

With recent economic data pointing to an uncertain economic future, M2, a primary measure of the money supply, shows a flattening in the supply of money. But, as more precise measures of money show us, this trend may indicate a latent recession in the dollar-fueled economy. The following article was originally published by the Mises […]