Every week, we release one commentary from Peter Schiff and another from a featured Euro Pacific broker or analyst. Browse years of searchable archives below.
With interest rates remaining at historic
lows, there is virtual unanimity among market watchers that interest rates
will rise in the not-so-distant future.
A contrarian, therefore, might be forced to...
In what amounts to the best April Fool's joke of the day, the labor department
released the much-delayed February Produce Price Index which, according to
government statisticians, apparently rose by the standard.1%!...
A story
in the Times of London, that the Bank of Japan has ended its policy
of dollar intervention, has been officially denied by the Japanese Ministry
of Finance. It has been speculated that the...
With the release of February's CPI, Wall Street once again rejoices under
the delusion that there is no inflation. For the month of February the CPI
rose by.5%. However, seasonally adjusted, it only rose by.3%,...
Instead of narrowing, as economists routinely forecast, and despite the dollar’s
substantial decline, January's trade deficit widened to a new all time record
high of 43.1 billion dollars. In classic Orwellian...
Once again, Wall Street is surprised by yet another in a string of weak
employment numbers. Not only were the 21,000 jobs created far fewer than
the 175,000 that had been forecast, but the labor department...
In recent months the statements of Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan have become
increasingly confusing and self-contradictory. So much so, that an impartial
observer must conclude that his motives are somewhat less...
If Alan Greenspan were Pinocchio, his nose would literally have knocked his
congressional questioners off their seats. In testimony full of misstatements,
one assertion stood out as particularly outrageous....