Governments need inflation, economies don’t

In an article in the UK's Telegraph on October 10, veteran economic correspondent Ambrose Evans-Pritchard laid bare the essential truth of the nearly universal current embrace of inflation as an economic panacea.

Peter Schiff - Euro Pacific Capital | October 16, 2014 | 10:28 pm

Economic atonement

Increasingly, economists are calling the tune to which businesses and consumers dance.

Peter Schiff - Euro Pacific Capital | September 30, 2014 | 7:43 pm

Doubling down on inflation

Friday's release of disappointing August payroll numbers should have been a jarring wake-up call warning Wall Street that the economy has been treading on thin ice.

Peter Schiff - Euro Pacific Capital | September 10, 2014 | 6:01 pm

Despite growing risks it’s still Janet Yellen’s market

The current stock market is earning a deserved reputation as being coated in Teflon. Bad or disappointing news just doesn't appear to stick, and has done nothing to slow the market's upward trajectory.

Peter Schiff - Euro Pacific Capital | September 2, 2014 | 9:45 pm

Proposed ‘exit fee’ on bond mutual funds telling

Such thinking says much about the current fragility of our bond market.

Peter Schiff - Euro Pacific Capital | June 23, 2014 | 6:23 pm

Piketty’s envy problem

There can be little doubt that Thomas Piketty's new book Capital in the 21st Century has struck a nerve globally.

Peter Schiff - Euro Pacific Capital | May 29, 2014 | 8:07 pm

See no evil

In this week's release of the minutes from its April 29-30 meeting, Federal Reserve policymakers made clear that they see little chance of inflation moving past their 2% target for years to come.

Peter Schiff - Euro Pacific Capital | May 22, 2014 | 9:24 pm

The Belgian Connection

A close look at international activity in the Treasury market reveals some odd patterns that should be explained.

Peter Schiff - Euro Pacific Capital | May 19, 2014 | 9:43 pm

Washington hates carrots, loves sticks

A widely-held maxim tells us that money tends to flow from where it is treated badly to where it is treated well. […]

Peter Schiff - Euro Pacific Capital | May 14, 2014 | 8:10 pm

And the band played on

After three months of consistently disappointing jobs numbers, the markets were as keyed up for a good jobs report as a long suffering sailor awaiting shore leave in a tropical port.

Peter Schiff - Euro Pacific Capital | May 6, 2014 | 9:38 pm

The debate debate

While there is wide agreement that the cost of college education has risen far faster than the incomes of most Americans, there is some debate as to whether the quality of the product has kept pace with the price.

Peter Schiff - Euro Pacific Capital | April 29, 2014 | 5:35 pm

Investors ignore frightful geopolitics

When the former Soviet Union collapsed almost 25 years ago, most global strategic forecasters assumed that the U.S. would adapt pragmatically to her new status of sole world superpower.

Peter Schiff - Euro Pacific Capital | April 17, 2014 | 8:35 pm

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