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Jim Rickards spoke to ABC News Australia about the long-term costs of devaluing currency. Sustained economic growth cannot come from devaluation when the entire world is cheapening currencies at once. Instead, people just lose their purchasing power and global inflation is the long-term result. Like Peter Schiff, he warned that the Federal Reserve won’t be […]
John Tamny, Political Economy Editor at Forbes, spoke to the Austrian Economics Research Conference about the roots of the Great Depression, the financial crisis, and the Great Recession. He explained how most modern economists ignore important economic fundamentals, or simply misunderstand them. For example, contrary to popular belief, governments cannot stimulate demand by simply spending […]
Alasdair Macleod, head of research for GoldMoney, explained to USAWatchdog that America is losing influence in international banking. China is steadily gaining more support for a new bank that would finance major infrastructure projects in developing countries. The Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) represents enormous investment potential by creating an Asian market enveloping more than […]
In his latest podcast, Peter Schiff reviews the latest economic data that indicates how poorly the economy is doing. Financial forecasts continue to be completely off-base, and many important data points have seen downward revisions. Meanwhile, the cost of basic necessities has gone up thanks to inflation. Peter expects the employment data is the outlier […]
In a stunningly despotic move, France has launched severe new restrictions on cash transactions. After September 2015, French residents cannot make cash payments of more than 1,000 euros, down from the current limit of 3,000. Foreign visitors’ cash payments will be capped at 10,000 euros rather than 15,000. Not only that, but any bank withdrawal […]
Peter Schiff isn’t the only one warning that the economic data of the United States is much worse than the media portrays. Michael Snyder has shared 10 charts pulled straights from the Federal Reserve’s own records that show how things have gotten worse since last crisis, not better. Some of these are points Peter has […]
Fox Business’ Kennedy spoke with Peter Schiff about President Obama’s praise for a mandatory voting system. Peter argued that mandatory voting doesn’t automatically lead to better government, because people won’t necessarily be making informed decisions. What’s worse, mandatory voting could only be enforced with monetary penalties, which would just become another tax burden. Kennedy and […]
An article from the New York Post pointed out that many analysts are joining Peter Schiff in saying that the global debt explosion is unsustainable. In fact, it’s pushing countries around the world towards yet another precipice of financial collapse. The Post cites some grim statistics of American and global debt: Global debt has expanded […]
David Stockman told Fox Business that the United States’ biggest economic priority should be getting the Federal Reserve under control. With a balance sheet that has quadrupled in just a few years, the Fed is incapable of sustaining its fiscal policy. Raising the Fed funds rate will add billions more to the already ballooning debt. […]
Deflation is a terrible thing, according to central bankers and politicians. Even mainstream economists decry deflation as an economic disaster, ignoring the basic supply and demand principles of Economics 101. Peter Schiff is one of the few advisors on mainstream media who will debate the point. An article by Edin Mujagic, published at the Mises […]
