Bush Trumps Reagan

The optimism that has followed the election of Donald Trump has pushed the Dow Jones Industrial Average to the threshold of 20,000, a level that will be both a nominal record and a symbolic milestone.

Peter Schiff - Euro Pacific Capital | December 22, 2016 | 3:24 pm

The winter of discontent

As I quantified in a commentary on the subject two years ago, a bad winter can indeed put a chill into the economy, at least temporarily.

Peter Schiff - Euro Pacific Capital | April 14, 2016 | 11:25 am

April Fools in March

It may be almost impossible to underestimate the gullibility of professional Fed watchers.

Peter Schiff - Euro Pacific Capital | April 1, 2016 | 10:03 am

Two down – two to go

The Federal Reserve's years-long campaign to sheepishly back away from its own policy forecasts continued in earnest last week when it officially reduced the four expected 2016 quarter point hikes, suggested back in December, to just two.

Peter Schiff - Euro Pacific Capital | March 23, 2016 | 12:09 pm

Clueless in Davos

Making their annual pilgrimage to the exclusive Swiss ski sanctuary of Davos last week, the world's political and financial elite once again gathered without having had the slightest idea of what was going on in the outside world.

Peter Schiff - Euro Pacific Capital | January 26, 2016 | 12:24 am

Feeling abandoned, Saudi Arabia ups the ante

Last week a major diplomatic crisis developed between Saudi Arabia and Iran over the Saudi execution of Nimr al Nimr, a charismatic Shiite cleric and anti-Sunni political activist.

Peter Schiff - Euro Pacific Capital | January 12, 2016 | 1:05 am

Mission accomplished

The image of George W Bush on the flight deck comes to mind in much of the reaction to this week's decision by the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade

Peter Schiff - Euro Pacific Capital | December 18, 2015 | 9:45 pm

Fed’s rocket ship turns hoverboard

Over the past year, while the U.S. economy has continually missed expectations, Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen has assured all who could stay awake during her press conferences that it was strong enough to withstand tighter monetary policy.

Peter Schiff - Euro Pacific Capital | December 8, 2015 | 2:04 am

The shadow rate casts gloom

Since we have had the monetary wind at our back for so many years, at least a few have begun to question our ability to make economic and financial gains against actual headwinds.

Peter Schiff - Euro Pacific Capital | November 13, 2015 | 1:51 am

QE’s creeping communism

Most economists and investors readily acknowledge that the current period of central bank activism, characterized by extended bouts of quantitative easing and zero percent interest rates, is a newly-blazed trail in economic history.

Peter Schiff - Euro Pacific Capital | November 3, 2015 | 2:00 am

Failure to launch

A deep bench of excuses, ranging from the weather to the Chinese economy, has been called on to justify why the US economy hasn't built up any noticeable steam, and why the Fed has failed to move rates off zero

Peter Schiff - Euro Pacific Capital | October 5, 2015 | 8:50 am

Meet QT; QE’s evil twin

There is a growing sense across the financial spectrum that the world is about to turn some type of economic page.

Peter Schiff - Euro Pacific Capital | September 6, 2015 | 3:56 pm

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