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LATEST POSTS BY PETER SCHIFF
Labor Day’s History of Violence
SchiffGold | 07 Sep, 2026
Every first Monday in September, Americans get a three-day weekend. Barbecues fire up, stores run sales, and politicians give speeches about “the dignity of work.” Labor Day is sold as a straightforward tribute to the American worker. But, as with most official retellings of historical turning points, the real history of Labor Day is a […]
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Jobs: QCEW shows over 2M jobs lost in Q1
SchiffGold | 07 Sep, 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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When Economic Stabilizers Destabilize the Economy
SchiffGold | 04 Sep, 2026
Mainstream economists insist that recessions can only be cured by increasing government spending, a doctrine popularized by Keynes and his followers and defended even by prominent economists who have only half-jokingly suggested manufacturing crises to justify it. Murray Rothbard’s Austrian analysis turns this on its head, showing that government intervention prolongs downturns by further distorting […]
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The Return of a Failed Wealth Tax Experiment
SchiffGold | 04 Sep, 2026
California’s proposed billionaire tax promises to raise $100 billion by taxing the state’s wealthiest residents, but Sweden and Colombia already ran this experiment for decades, and both saw wealth taxes chronically underperform while accelerating capital flight. Confirmed departures from California billionaires like Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Peter Thiel have already erased a large share […]
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Fed Governor Concedes Next Rate Move Is a Coin Flip as Inflation Stays Well Above Target
SchiffGold | 04 Sep, 2026
Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller told Reuters on September 3rd that inflation “remains meaningfully above” the Federal Open Market Committee’s 2 percent goal, even as he pointed to what he called recent signs of disinflation. The remarks, delivered at a Reuters NEXT Newsmaker Interview in Washington, D.C., come less than two weeks before the FOMC’s […]
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Private Hiring Grinds to a Near-Halt as Job Growth Hits Seven-Month Low
SchiffGold | 03 Sep, 2026
U.S. private employers added just 38,000 jobs in August 2026, according to the ADP National Employment Report released this week, the slowest pace of hiring since January. The report, compiled from aggregated and anonymized payroll data covering more than 26 million U.S. employees in collaboration with the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, showed weakness spreading beneath […]
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Labor Market Data Keeps Getting Revised Down
SchiffGold | 02 Sep, 2026
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) for July 2026 on Tuesday, September 1st, showing job openings “little changed” at 7.3 million. That phrase, along with its close cousins “essentially unchanged” and “held steady,” appeared throughout the report, describing nearly every headline metric. Hires and total separations both […]
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Warsh Vows No Excuses on 2 Percent Inflation
SchiffGold | 01 Sep, 2026
Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh used his Jackson Hole podium on Friday to draw a bright line around the central bank’s credibility, declaring that the long-promised 2 percent inflation goal on the Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) index is “a firm, fixed target.” Price stability, he said, “is not self-executing…it’s the Fed’s job to deliver stable […]
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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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