Peter's Blog

The Fed is governed by institutional rules that separate it in operation and incentive from all other banks. Rather than being driven by profit and benevolence, it is ruled by a convoluted system of spoken and unspoken incentives that are often at odds with one another. The purpose of the Fed is nominally to keep […]

What do the biggest banks, the most prominent news outlets, and advanced AI models have in common? They were all wrong about the 2025 gold price by over $1000. While there is always a lot of uncertainty in the financial markets, being off by over $1000(over 30% of gold’s 2024 year-end price), is embarrassing. While […]

Peter appears on Triangle Investor Interviews to unpack the recent surge in precious metals and what it reveals about confidence in the U.S. dollar. He ties gold’s rapid advance to failures in fiscal and monetary policy, and he raises questions about the future of both tokenized assets and Bitcoin compared with real, physical bullion. He […]

On Friday’s episode of The Peter Schiff Show, Peter dissects a strange Friday in which the headline non-farm payrolls report never arrived because of the government shutdown. He links the missing data to an alarming private-payroll print, explains why the stock market is celebrating weakness for the wrong reasons, and reminds listeners that gold — […]

Last week, Peter joined the Soar Financially channel to lay out a clear warning: the Fed’s hoped-for rate cuts won’t rescue growth, they’ll stoke inflation and leave the economy worse off. He connects loose monetary policy to fiscal excess, presidential meddling, and a renewed flight into gold — a classic signal that sound money advocates […]

President Trump’s highly publicized feud with Fed Governor Lisa Cook has recently frightened establishment finance types. With all the pearl-clutching surrounding the Fed’s independence, it’s easy to forget that everything the Fed already does is politically motivated. The following article was originally published by the Mises Institute. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those […]

One of the most pernicious myths about central banking is its necessity to expand and contract the money supply to facilitate the “needs of trade.” But, as the Austrian School of Economics demonstrates, a static money supply is perfectly fine for trade, and it doesn’t entail the destructive inflation that comes with central bankers. The […]

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell took the podium in Warwick, Rhode Island on September 23rd to explain why policymakers trimmed the federal funds target another 25 basis points last week. Speaking to the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce, Powell said the new 4.00–4.25 percent range moves policy “toward a more neutral stance.” Yet in the […]

Another month goes by, and the Fed’s 2% inflation target remains a distant paradise. Even though inflation has actually increased by some metrics, the Fed has nonetheless fired up the money printers, revealing it cares more about political ends than keeping prices stable. The following article was originally published by the Mises Institute. The opinions […]

Last week, the Fed cut interest rates by 25 basis points, the first cut since December. While it claims to be responding to economic conditions, the Fed is really just catering to political and financial elites, who’ve been pressuring the central bank for months. The following article was originally published by the Mises Institute. The […]