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As the push for a $15 per hour minimum wage continues in earnest across America, policymakers had better consider the warning signs flashing from beleaguered Puerto Rico. Minimum wage policy was a major factor leading to the current crisis there. The Government Development Bank in the US territory is operating under a state of emergency […]

Earlier this week, China launched twice daily gold fixing to establish a regional benchmark that will bolster the country’s influence in the global gold market. What is the significance of the move? Greg Collett, director of investment products for the World Gold Council talked with Kitco News about the new Chinese benchmark. He said it […]

As Peter Schiff put it in his recent podcast, “Hi ho silver seems to be the rallying cry for the day.” (Scroll down to watch the full podcast.) Last month, we reported silver could be poised to come out of the shadows. It certainly has – in a big way. Silver cracked $17 per ounce […]

In another sign that it is becoming a major player in the world gold market, China launched twice-daily price fixing on Tuesday. According to a Bloomberg report, the move is an attempt to establish a regional benchmark that will bolster its influence in the global gold market: The Shanghai Gold Exchange set the price at […]

Jim Grant appeared on Bloomberg and offered some advice to the Fed when prompted by the hosts. Do less! I think they should do less of almost everything they now do. They pretend to things they can’t know, and they undertake actions that are mainly unhelpful.” Grant went on to explain why interventions into economies […]

Peter Schiff appeared with Alex Jones on InfoWars Friday and made the case that the real economic earthquake is in our future, not in the past. Peter said that despite all of the positive spin coming out of the mainstream media, the Federal Reserve, and the Obama administration, the US economy is weak and spiraling […]

Here’s some free advice for the Federal Reserve. It’s OK. You can tell them. They already know. The economy is not good. As Peter Schiff pointed out on CNBC yesterday, the Fed doesn’t really want to raise interest rates. We just witnessed what even a small nudge upward did to the stock markets after years […]

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More than half the world’s sovereign debt now carries negative interest rates, and data keeps coming in confirming that it is driving demand for gold. A couple of weeks ago, CNBC reported central bank action appears to be rejuvenating gold in Europe, as the entrenchment of negative interest rates makes depositing cash in banks less […]

This article was submitted by Addison Quale, SchiffGold Precious Metals Specialist. Any views expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Peter Schiff or SchiffGold. On Tuesday, the Obama administration announced that the federal government will open the door to forgive nearly 400,000 student loans. According to a MarketWatch report, if […]