The Peter Schiff Show Podcast

RATE AND REVIEW this podcast on Facebook . https://www.facebook.com/PeterSchiff/reviews/ Trump Suffers Huge Double Blow Yesterday, two key people - one the President's former campaign manager Paul Manafort was convicted of multiple counts of serious financial crimes, and later that day, Michael Cohen, the President's personal attorney, copped a plea to multiple financial crimes. So you have two ke...

RATE AND REVIEW this podcast on Facebook . https://www.facebook.com/PeterSchiff/reviews/ Strong Dollar Policy? There used to be a lot of talk about the so-called Strong Dollar Policy. We had the Strong Dollar Policy when Bill Clinton was President, George Bush; I guess when Barack Obama was President, as well.  I've talked about it, I've written about it in Crash Proof , How to Profit from the Com...

The Accountable Capitalism Act Elizabeth Warren unveiled her new idea in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal.  It is her new bill, called the Accountable Capitalism Act.  Of course, I have said this before, there is no truth in advertising when it comes to legislation. Whenever Congress passes a bill, the name of the bill is generally the opposite of what the bill actually does. So if they pass a...

RATE AND REVIEW this podcast wherever you listen. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-peter-schiff-show-podcast/id404963432?mt=2&ls=1 Turkey's Current Account Deficit The "Turkey baste" continued on Monday, although Tuesday we did have a bit of a reversal, Tuesday bounce in the lira, rising about 7 percent or so, in today's trading.  But still, it is down considerably from where it was a f...

RATE AND REVIEW this podcast wherever you listen. Turkey is the Epicenter of Emerging Market Concerns Right now, the epicenter of the concerns about the emerging markets is coming from Turkey. What is the problem with the Turkish lira?  Turkish President Erdogan is veering off into some very dangerous territory with his stance with the Central Bank of Turkey and now the political battle of egos th...

RATE AND REVIEW This Podcast https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-peter-schiff-show-podcast/id404963432?mt=2&ls=1 Alex Jones  Banned Alex Jones was banned from iTunes, Facebook, YouTube - his entire YouTube Channel is gone! He had over a million subscribers.  The Alex Jones videos on my YouTube channel where I appeared as a guest are still up, but the ones on Alex's site are no longer there...

RATE AND REVIEW this podcast Wherever you listen. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-peter-schiff-show-podcast/id404963432?mt=2&ls=1 Ridiculous Rhetoric in Tariffs One of the drivers behind the increasing cost of living is going to be the tariffs.  The rhetoric here is really ridiculous.  Talking heads on the mainstream media say, "We've got China by the balls..." "We're going to make the...

RATE AND REVIEW this podcast on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/PeterSchiff/reviews/ Abolish the Capital Gains Tax? If we simply had no capital gains tax, but wen are still taxing the worker on the value of his labor without any deductions whatsoever, I just don't think that's a fair system. That's one of the reasons I would not want to just abolish the capital gains tax. I would want to abolis...

RATE AND REVIEW this podcast on iTunes! U.S. GDP Growth Reported at 4.1% Today we finally got the highly anticipated first look at U.S. economic growth, or really GDP growth, because the GDP is not that great a barometer of the economy.  Nonetheless, thats the one that everybody uses to measure it, and that's the one that we're going to talk about. Perhaps I can get into why the GDP is such a flaw...

POST YOUR REVIEW OF THIS PODCAST ON iTunes Voting Responsibly for Freedom I am "pro" young people because I want them to grow up in a free country. I want them to have every opportunity to be as prosperous as possible.  Democracy is actually an enemy of freedom.  Young people have a better chance to achieve their goals if the 18-19-20 year old generation aren't voting for leaders who pass policies...

Presidential Tweets Express Anger at the Fed The catalyst today was more tweets from President Trump where he is expressing anger, not only at the Federal Reserve, and at the ECB and at the Bank of China, because he is accusing both Europe and China of being currency manipulators; taking advantage of us by weakening their currencies. He's saying that a weak currency gives you an advantage.  It doe...

Trump Driver is Suing the Trump Organization On thing I talked about on the Joe Rogan podcast was a story that broke the same day of my last podcast, which I thought was very interesting.  It was about Donald Trump being sued by his former personal driver, who still works for the Trump organization, by the way, he's worked there for over 25 years until Trump became President and got a tax-payer pr...

Misguided Tweet About Pfizer Another misguided tweet that came out today from the President had to do with drugs: Pfizer & others should be ashamed that they have raised drug prices for no reason. They are merely taking advantage of the poor & others unable to defend themselves, while at the same time giving bargain basement prices to other countries in Europe & elsewhere. We will resp...

"Bring on the Trade War!" Today is Jobs Friday, but before I get to the jobs report, I want to talk a little bit about the escalation of the trade war,  In fact, some stories I'm reading are that the trade war began today, or last night.  A lot of the tariffs are finally being imposed.  The market reacted positively; the Dow was up 100 points today.  The NASDAQ was up 100 points as well, which is...

Market Closed Early for July 4th Holiday The U.S. stock market closed early today, ahead of tomorrow's Fourth of July holiday when the markets are of course closed and Americans are out celebrating Independence Day, the birth of the nation, July 4, 1776.  I love the Fourth of July as a holiday; it is purely American. Framers of the Constitution Risked it All One of the problems I have with the Fou...

 Dow Ending a Down Week on a Positive Note The Dow managed to finish a down week on a positive note; the Dow Jones was up about 55 points - 24,270-ish is where we closed.  Although intra-day, we were up better than 250 points, so most fo the losses came toward the end of the day, as the Dow was not able to hold on to all those gains.  It held on to some of the gains, but Russell 2000, not as lucky...

Election Results in N.Y.C. Indicate Political Backlash Trump has already said that he's "Made America Great Again", so whatever problems he inherited, he's already claimed to have solved, which means any problems that arise now are brand new, under Trump's watch, and he and the Republicans are going to take the blame. An early warning sign of just how big a disaster this can be arrived yesterday i...

Stagflation Nobody realized just how bad the economy is, but they're about to find out.  All of the economic data that came out this week points to stagflation, if you look at the data.  Look at the Philly Fed - dropped down to 19.  It is the biggest drop in 4 years; the lowest since the election. Look at the manufacturing PMI - those numbers came out yesterday - dropped to a 7-month low, the lowe...

Upping the Ante The shot heard around the world in the ever-escalating trade war was fired last night by Donald Trump, threatening to impose another $200 billion of tariffs on American consumers wishing to buy Chinese goods. This followed the $50 billion in tariffs.  And, remember, when Trump announced the first $50 billion tax on Chinese goods, he threatened that if China retaliated by taxing its...

ECB Announces Dovish Tightening The big market-moving central bank announcement this week was not the Fed.  They came out with their so-called "hawkish hike", but yesterday, the ECB came out and they were supposed to announce the end of their Quantitative Easing program, their own version of the taper, which they did.  But they surprised the market by indicating that they would not raise rates abo...

Fed Raises Rates for the 7th Time The Federal Reserve raised interest rates today.  I think this is the 7th rate hike. Six of these rate hikes have now taken place since Donald Trump was elected; five of them since he was inaugurated. The official rate now is 1.75% to 2%.  The Federal Reserve targets the midpoint of that range.  But the Fed has been tightening a lot longer than those 7 rate hikes,...

Market Movers: Singapore Summit We've got a lot of potentially market-moving events going on this week; we've got the Summit which I think is getting underway this evening with North Korea's President Kim Jong Un and President Trump meeting in  Singapore. No Market Move Expected on Rate Hike We've got the Federal Open Market Committee Meeting beginning tomorrow, it's a 2-day meeting ending on Wedn...

Focusing on Emerging Markets I'm going to spend most of today's podcast talking about what is going on in the emerging markets, in the currency market and in the stock markets; what the speculators are doing, why they are doing it and why I think they are wrong and why I think it creates an excellent opportunity for investors to fade this trade and prepare for the ultimate reversal of these moves....

Current Events Not much has been going on in the economy or the financial markets the last couple of days.  Its been  pretty quiet, so I'm going to take an opportunity to record a podcast more on current events and politics, so if you're not interested in those topics, then maybe just wait for my next podcast, although, when I did the Peter Schiff Radio Show 5 days a week, there were people who co...

Jobs Friday Today is the first day of June and it's also jobs Friday. But before we get to the always highly-anticipated nonfarm payroll number, I want to talk about some of the economic data that came out yesterday, on Thursday. Personal Income and Spending I think the most significant release was the Personal Income and Spending number for the month of April. The spending numbers were so strong...