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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. The Wall Street Journal recently reported on a fascinating phenomenon unfolding in Venezuela. As many are aware, the nation is beset by a multitude of economic […]

Jim Grant didn’t hesitate when asked. He sees the price of gold is going up. Grant made the rounds Wednesday, appearing first on CNBC, saying he thinks the US is already in a recession, and we can expect even crazier monetary policy in the future. Then he did an interview with The Street and made […]

Jim Grant appeared on CNBC’s Closing Bell and unhesitatingly said he thinks the US economy has already gone into recession: I think we are in one…I think there’s a defensible case to be made that a recession began late last year.” Grant echoed what Peter Schiff has been saying. In his Gold Videocast last week, […]

All of a sudden, everybody has gone bullish on gold, even Wall Street. Within the last couple of days Jim Cramer, the CNBC Nightly Business Report, and Van Eck Global all sang gold’s praises. Cramer said, “There is a bull market in Gold,” and CNBC Nightly Business Report opened the show Monday proclaiming, “Hard assets […]

Mainstream analysts have started seriously talking about the possibility of negative US interest rates in the near future. On the heels of the Bank of Japan dropping a key interest rate to negative 0.1% late last month and indicating it is willing to go deeper into negative territory, Bloomberg reports that American analysts see an […]

In his inaugural Gold Videocast for SchiffGold a few weeks ago, Albert K Lu interviewed Adrian Day, CEO of Adrian Day Asset Management. Day said he believes the gold market is “consolidating, bottoming, and turning around.” The last couple of weeks seem to confirm Day’s insight. Since hitting its low the day after the Federal […]

Debt is crushing the American economy. Over the last month or so, the mainstream seems to have realized that the economy isn’t on nearly as solid ground as government officials and central planners were telling them throughout 2015, and all of a sudden, gold is in vogue. But as we pointed out last week, the […]

The mainstream world of economics and investment has the attention span of a 12-year-old hopped up on sugar. A couple of months ago, it was all doom and gloom for gold. The Fed was talking interest rate hikes, government spokespersons were claiming victory over the recession, and mainstream analysts were hastily pounding nails in gold’s […]

Today, the President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York admitted that tightening financial conditions could affect the Fed’s “monetary policy decision.” In his February Gold Videocast, Peter Schiff translates William Dudley’s statements: the Fed is not going to be able to keep its promise of raising interest rates four times throughout 2016. In […]

We are always told to “be prepared” for a crisis. But what exactly does that mean? We tend to think in terms of stockpiling supplies, or maybe having an evacuation plan. Of course, these are important steps. But there are other less obvious things we can do to prepare for upheavals, particularly when it comes […]