Last week at its regular policy-setting meeting, the Federal Reserve announced it would double down on the policies that have failed to produce anything but a stagnant economy. It was a disappointing,…
Category: Financial Commentary
Inflation Propaganda Exposed
Economists who hold the popular view that expanding the money supply will provide the best medicine for our ailing economy dismiss the inflationary concerns of monetary hawks, like me, by pointing to…
Peter Schiff – Lessons from Black Monday
By: Peter Schiff, CEO of Euro Pacific Capital 25 years ago, on another Monday in late October, the financial world seemed to disintegrate in a heartbeat. Though the 205 point drop in the…
Supreme Errors
In the wake of my last commentary on the horrendous Supreme Court decision upholding Obama’s health care plan, several people have pointed out that I erred in saying that the income tax…
Trickle Up Economics
The political left wing has long tried to cast doubt on the fairness, and even the efficacy, of free market capitalism by branding it as a “trickle down” system. This epithet is…
What is Money?
Excerpted from the new economic bestseller, The Real Crash By Peter Schiff, CEO of Euro Pacific Precious Metals Today, we’re accustomed to thinking of small greenish paper rectangles as the definition of…
Economic Reality Bites
Many people became convinced that data releases earlier this year indicated that “recovery” in the U.S. was imminent. But as I have been saying for months, this evidence would ultimately be shown…
US Dollar VS Gold: Epic Money Battle
By: Jim Willie CB, GoldenJackass.com The so-called Global Financial Crisis is a term so widely used that it has earned its own acronym of GFC. When first seen, it seemed like girl…
How to Handle an Economic Implosion
By Elliott Wave International I came across some research on the subject of worry. Here’s how it was presented: Things People Worry About: things that never happen – 40% things which did…
Call This Financial Repression? Really?
By: Adrian Ash, BullionVault Financial repression this ain’t. Not unless you like playing victim… ALL OF a sudden, everyone’s talking about financial repression – the capture and torture of domestic savers with…