Peter Schiff
Peter Schiff
Peter David Schiffis an American stockbroker, author, and one-time Senate candidate. He has appeared as a guest on numerous financial television shows and has been quoted in major print publications as a financial analyst. He is host of The Peter Schiff Show, an audio show broadcast on terrestrial and Internet radio, and he was formerly host of an Internet podcast called Wall Street Unspun, now archived as podcasts...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth23 March 1963
CountryUnited States of America
Some of the smaller stocks have been moving, but the big stocks are going to take real money to move.
Gold is not overvalued at $500, and gold will not be overvalued at $1,500 or $2,000. The real money is buying gold and putting it away.
That shows that big money is not buying, Wall Street does not believe this rally, they are still skeptical and are waiting for the gold price to fall.
Printing money is merely taxation in another form.
At some point, the dollar has to give. You can't just keep printing money, and monetizing debt, and buying bonds, without the dollar imploding.
Printing money is merely taxation in another form. Rather than robbing citizens of their money, government robs their money of its purchasing power.
Printing money creates inflation, which weakens an economy. Unfortunately, this kind of common-sense thinking never seems to penetrate academic circles.
The entire American standard of living is artificially high right now, resting on the ability of Americans to borrow money from foreigners.
You are going to lose wealth in U.S. stocks. My advice is to avoid them if at all possible.
Wall Street is in trouble because Main Street is broke.
The left-wing agenda wants us to think that the reason there was a depression was because the government didn't do anything. That's not true.
When the dollar collapses, it's not doing it in a vacuum. If the dollar loses value, it's doing so relative to some other currency. So the purchasing power that we lose, somebody else gets.
My mother always taught me that two wrongs don't make a right. We shouldn't bail out Wall Street. We shouldn't bail out Detroit. It will cost the economy more than the cost of the bailout which is more than the politicians think. We'll run into the hundred of millions to prop these companies up.
Unfortunately the situation in New Orleans is a microcosm of our nation as a whole. Although our reliance on foreign savings and production are widely known, and most economists accept the fact that a real economic disaster would ensue should foreigners discontinue such subsidies, dump their hoards of U.S. treasuries, and refuse to exchange real goods for paper dollars. However, rather than perusing policies to rebalance our economy, we simply do nothing, and hope that day of reckoning never arrives. However, just as that strategy backfired in New Orleans , so, too, will it for America as a whole.