Peter’s Blog

If all the world’s debt were backed by gold, the US dollar price of the yellow metal would be nearly $34,000. Frank Holmes of US Global Investors explains the math in an insightful article. 5.9 billion ounces = total above-ground gold in world. At $1,181 per ounce, that’s about $7 trillion. Total global debt = […]

While Marc Faber thinks the Federal Reserve should have raised interest rates years ago, he’s not at all surprised that it did not raise rates this month. In fact, he thinks the United States and global economies are too poor for Janet Yellen to raise rates at all this year. He predicts the US will […]

Ross Beaty is the Chairman of Alterra Power Corp and Pan American Silver. He is an expert in the energy sector and precious metals mining. Beaty spoke with Cambridge House Live about why he owns gold and silver as a protection from the economic and political uncertainties of the next decade. From disruptions in the […]

The price of gold shot up about 1.5% today, breaking through the technically significant barrier of $1200. Gold closed around $1185 on Wednesday, and rallied today to a peak of $1206. It now hovers around $1202. The jump in price comes on the news that the Federal Reserve is likely to keep the federal funds […]

It’s official: China now plays a small role in directly setting the price of gold in Western markets. For the first time ever, a Chinese bank has joined the twice-daily gold price fixing process run by the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA). As we reported back in February, this news was anticipated. The LBMA has […]

Danielle DiMartino was a former advisor to Richard Fisher, the president of the Dallas Federal Reserve. On CNBC this week, DiMartino identified herself as an economist more concerned with the power of free markets when she cited Ludwig von Mises as one of her personal heroes. She went on to share insights into the Fed’s […]

Janet Yellen held a press conference yesterday after the Federal Open Market Committee’s June meeting. Peter Schiff cuts through the doublespeak to focus on the real message behind Yellen’s official statements.

Precious metals analyst Ed Steer shared his expectations for the price of gold and silver with Cambridge House Live. While Steer believes that the paper gold markets are the main determiner of prices right now, he thinks Western investors should mimic the habits of the Chinese and buy as much physical gold and silver as […]

In his latest podcast, Peter Schiff reviews a statement from Bank of America warning that the Federal Reserve could forgo a rate hike and start up a new round of quantitative easing. While most are focused on the risks around a withdrawal of liquidity, we believe the biggest hit to confidence could be the opposite: […]

In part three of their video series, Mike Maloney and Peter Schiff explain why more and more Americans will have to continue working into old age or forgo retirement entirely. They discuss how the United States has become complacent as a global economic superpower, and warn about the devastating effects this complacency will have on […]