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LATEST POSTS BY PETER SCHIFF
Headline PPI Holds Steady in July, but Core Price Pressures Persist
SchiffGold | 15 Aug, 2026
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Thursday that its Producer Price Index (PPI) for final demand was unchanged in July, a reading that stands in contrast with the 4.7 percent increase recorded over the past 12 months. Consumer prices showed a similar pattern: the Consumer Price Index (CPI-U) rose 0.1 percent for the month but […]
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When Progress Becomes Anti-Progress
SchiffGold | 14 Aug, 2026
Modern institutions have embraced the belief that more data, more regulation, and more centralized coordination will always produce better outcomes, but that assumption is increasingly running into its own limits. As bureaucracies drown in information they cannot meaningfully interpret, the very mechanisms built to improve performance begin producing the opposite result, a phenomenon that undermines […]
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Trump’s New Era of Political Capitalism
SchiffGold | 13 Aug, 2026
The Trump administration has taken equity stakes in roughly 30 American companies, effectively turning the Commerce Department into a political venture capitalist rather than a neutral overseer of markets. Critics across the political spectrum warn that this arrangement distorts capital allocation by signaling government backing for favored firms, pulling investment away from businesses that succeed […]
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Why the FIMA Repo Facility Can’t Save Japan (Or the U.S.)
SchiffGold | 12 Aug, 2026
Japan’s long experiment with near-zero rates and relentless deficit spending is hitting its limits, and the consequences are eventually going to hit U.S. markets. The yen’s slide toward levels not seen in decades forced Tokyo into repeated interventions, and for the first time since 1998, Washington joined in to save the U.S. and the world […]
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Gold ETFs Return to Inflows as European and Asian Demand Rebounds
SchiffGold | 11 Aug, 2026
Global investors added about US$3 billion to gold-backed exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in July, ending a two-month run of net outflows. The inflows lifted total assets under management 1 percent higher, to US$530 billion, and coincided with a 2 percent rise in spot prices, enough to end gold’s four-month decline. European and Asian buyers accounted for […]
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Household Survey Shows 1.8M Jobs Lost in 2026 so far
SchiffGold | 07 Aug, 2026
The analysis below covers the Employment picture released on the first Friday of every month. While most of the attention goes to the Headline Report, it can be helpful to look at the details, revisions, and other reports to get a better gauge of what is really going on. Current Trends The jobs report showed […]
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US Government Borrows $800B in 3 months
SchiffGold | 07 Aug, 2026
Current Trends The US government has borrowed over $800B in the last three months. This is a gargantuan sum of money that annualizes to ~$3.2T. This is an astonishing amount of money given the economy is not technically in recession. If there is an even a minor bump in the economy, the government spending will […]
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Why We Keep Falling for War
SchiffGold | 07 Aug, 2026
Wars are consistently sold to the public on false or misleading pretexts, and the true beneficiaries are rarely the citizens asked to fight and pay for them but the politicians, financiers, and military-industrial interests who profit regardless of outcome. Statist ideology and nationalism condition people to accept these sacrifices, obscuring the reality that the state’s […]
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LATEST POSTS BY ERIK BREGAR
Gold & Silver Morning Update 1/5/2026 | The Bregar Minute
Erik Bregar | 05 Jan, 2026
A very strong start to the week for gold, as you might expect, following the US strike on Venezuela / capture of President Maduro on Sunday. What’s perhaps a little more surprising is the blistering outperformance of copper, silver, platinum, palladium…but to be fair global stock and oil markets aren’t bothered at all, and so […]
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Gold & Silver Afternoon Update 12/30/2025 | The Bregar Minute
Erik Bregar | 30 Dec, 2025
A very poor rest of the day for gold. It got whacked back below the October high by algos at the S&P cash open, couldn’t benefit at all from silver’s +4% rally from 10amET into the COMEX close, and overreacted to the downside with a modest US yield uptick following a mixed set of FOMC […]
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Gold & Silver Morning Update 12/30/2025 | The Bregar Minute
Erik Bregar | 30 Dec, 2025
More strength than I expected for the precious metals overnight; thanks to more demand at the China open, but perhaps more importantly due to the Chinese government announcing subsidies for electronic vehicles, phones, tablets, smartwatches and smart glasses…all of which consume silver. Past rounds of similar subsidies have led to immediate sales surges, and so we’re […]
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Gold & Silver Afternoon Update 12/29/2025 | The Bregar Minute
Erik Bregar | 29 Dec, 2025
An unsurprisingly challenging rest of the day for the precious metals. We saw modest bounces with the stock market since the COMEX closes, but neither metal came anywhere close to re-attacking its overnight range. This hints that there’s a lot of trapped bulls out there who fell for this bogus “bank failure / forced silver […]
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Gold & Silver Morning Update 12/29/2025 | The Bregar Minute
Erik Bregar | 29 Dec, 2025
Some absolutely wild post-Christmas trading activity for the precious metals. First, silver and platinum’s incredible +10% rallies on Friday, fueled by an odd rehashing of the China silver export restriction story from October and rumors that a bullion bank was blown out of its silver short position; and now scary -16% & -18% crashes off […]
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Gold & Silver Morning Update 12/24/2025 | The Bregar Minute
Erik Bregar | 24 Dec, 2025
Indeed an upside breakout attempt for gold above yesterday’s highs in early Asian trade last night, but this technical achievement was ruined by an obnoxious 4k contract, -1%, bashing off session highs in the final five minutes of the 9pmET hour. There wasn’t a headline catalyst or abrupt negative shift in the broader risk mood. […]
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Gold & Silver Afternoon Update 12/23/2025 | The Bregar Minute
Erik Bregar | 23 Dec, 2025
An impressive rebound for gold & silver to round out this Tuesday, thanks in large part to a calming down in bond markets / strong stock market rally following the much weaker-than-expected Present Situation reading in the December US Consumer Confidence report. Silver and PGM markets naturally outperformed amid the risk-on environment, with platinum astonishingly […]
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Gold & Silver Afternoon Update 12/23/2025 | The Bregar Minute
Erik Bregar | 23 Dec, 2025
More strength for the precious metals as expected overnight, with Asian demand once again leading the way. Europe was hesitant to chase gold higher though, despite a pronounced decline for US yields and the USD…and this turned out to be the correct move in retrospect because yields and dollar are now shooting higher following the […]
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