Gold •172 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% | |
Platinum •15 mins | 941.30 | +4.90 | +0.52% | |
WTI Crude •10 mins | 69.11 | -0.35 | -0.50% | |
Gasoline •11 mins | 1.937 | -0.005 | -0.26% | |
Ethanol •172 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% | |
Silver •172 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
Silver • 172 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | ||
Copper • 172 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | ||
Brent Crude • 10 mins | 72.55 | -0.39 | -0.53% | ||
Natural Gas • 10 mins | 3.825 | +0.077 | +2.05% | ||
Heating Oil • 10 mins | 2.234 | +0.003 | +0.11% |
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Peter Schiff is an economist and investment advisor specializing in the foreign equity, currency, and gold markets. He became internationally known by successfully forecasting the collapse of the dot-com bubble, the US housing market bubble, and the bankruptcy of major global banks. Schiff is Chairman of gold bullion dealer SchiffGold and CEO of stock brokerage firm Euro Pacific Capital. He frequently delivers lectures at major economic and investment conferences, and is quoted often in the print media, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, LA Times, Barron's, BusinessWeek, Time and Fortune. His broadcast credits include regular guest appearances on CNBC, Fox Business, CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News Channel, as well as hosting his own weekly radio show, The Peter Schiff Show. He is also the author of several bestselling books, including "Crash Proof: How to Profit from the Coming Economic Collapse" released in 2007 before the financial crisis struck, and the more recent "How An Economy Grows And Why It Crashes" and "The Real Crash: America's Coming Bankruptcy."
Synopsis: The Federal Reserve's December interest rate hike was actually the end of the Fed's tightening cycle that began with the first taper talk several…
While central bankers gathered for their annual Wyoming meeting, another group of free-market activists held The Jackson Hole Summit. In his speech, Peter Schiff succinctly…
Why might Greece abandon the euro and re-adopt the drachma? Peter Schiff argues that the drachma would be a politically expedient way of defaulting on…
Synopsis: Axel Merk and Peter Schiff sit down for a personal discussion about contrarian investing at the New Orleans Investment Conference. As two of the…
Synopsis: With the launch of the iPhone 6, Americans now wait in line for hours to sell wealthy Chinese the smartphones at 10X the price.…
Yesterday, I launched a new website and announced the rebranding of my gold bullion dealer from Euro Pacific Precious Metals to SchiffGold. I started this…
Highlights 0:05 - Question: "According to the financial media, the world has 'fallen out of love with gold.' Is this really true?" 0:40 - The…
In this August Gold Videocast, Peter interviews renowned investment advisor and author Jim Rickards about the role of gold in the international currency wars. Jim…
Highlights: 1:00 - Gold's rise has confounded Wall Street banks that advised their clients to sell in expectation of a big correction. 1:40 - Even…
Even investors who typically eschew precious metals have been hard-pressed to ignore the platinum industry this year. The longest strike in South African history paired…
We can't ignore it anymore - the markets are rigged. The LIBOR scandal broke almost two years ago, and the banks found responsible for manipulating…
So far, 2014 has been a paradoxical year for gold. Many investors aren't even aware that it has rallied almost 8%. On the rare occasion…
Before Bear Stearns and Lehman collapsed, the market for physical gold was limited to a relatively small group of investors who understood the havoc inflation…
Gold is the simplest of financial assets - you either own it or you don't. Yet, at the same time, gold is also among the…
There are two types of gold investors: those trying to make money on short-term market timing and those looking for long-term asset preservation. It was…
Having replaced savings with debt on both the national and individual levels, I think it's well past time for Westerners to take a few lessons…
It's starting to feel like we are part of a giant poker game against the US government, whose hand is the true condition of the…
Anyone who bought the media buzz about a September reduction of QE - called the "taper" - was very surprised when the Federal Reserve announced…
Summer is traditionally a slow season for precious metals, but this summer started with a rout. In the last week of June, gold and silver…
I've been emphasizing for months that the current correction in the gold price is a result of speculative money fleeing the market and not any…