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The Federal Reserve Open Market Committee met yesterday and held interest rates steady in the 2.25-2.50% range. This wasn’t really a surprise. More significantly, Fed Chair Jerome Powell kept up the dovish rhetoric, saying, “The case for rate increases has diminished. I would need to see a reason for further rate hikes that would have […]
Stocks got a boost on Friday and gold rose 1.8% on further signs that the Federal Reserve is capitulating. An article in the Wall Street Journal basically confirmed the Fed is now thinking about winding down its quantitative tightening program. As a CNBC headline put it, “The Fed may be moving closer to ending its […]
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Stock markets appear to have stabilized after a “December to remember.” But in his most recent podcast, Peter Schiff said we’re really just in the eye of a financial hurricane. The selloff began after the September Fed rate hike. At the time, Peter called it the hike that broke the camel’s back. The market plunged in […]
What happens when central banks push interest rates to zero – in some cases below zero – and hold them there for nearly a decade? You get debt. Lots and lots of debt. Record levels of debt, in fact.
Stock markets have been extremely volatile this week, with massive swings in both directions. The markets rallied on Wednesday, primarily due to optimism about progress in the trade war. On the week, the Dow is up around 100 points, but it also put in new lows. In his most recent podcast, Peter Schiff said he […]
Remember back when Janet Yellen was heading up the Federal Reserve and she claimed there won’t be another financial crisis “in our lifetime?” You don’t have to think back too far. It was just about 18 months ago. Tuesday, June 27, 2017, to be precise. But now that Yellen has vacated the Eccles building and taken […]
October jobs numbers came out on Friday and everybody was all giddy about healthy growth. But in his most recent podcast, Peter Schiff said jobs are just another bubble about to burst.
The prices of gold and silver are behaving very much like they did in 2008. You remember what was happening in 2008, right? After the dot.com bubble burst, the Federal Reserve swooped in and dropped interest rates to an artificially low level. In the mid-2000s, the economy boomed and the housing bubble inflated driven by the sudden […]
It’s all capitalisms fault! What is? Well, everything. At least that’s the narrative you get from the political left, and quite frankly, not infrequently from the political right.
