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  • Shame on you Wall Street Journal.

  • peter please dont stop these videos.

  • If we cannot get the IRS and Fed Banks and gov regulation out of the business sector of the USA ,we can forget it.What is it worth to try and make money when it is taken before you can even make it...May as well be on welfare,and we can get a free cell phone too,that was change you voters wanted.

  • Don't worry about the reporters Mr Schiff. They are not playing straight with you.

    Sometimes it is confusing being a rational being in a political world.

  • The thing with Schiff being a corporatist is dangerous is, instead of bringing up the wages of our outsourced jobs, he wants to get rid of the minimum wage, and bring U.S. wages down to compete with them. Think about that.. how will you survive on 50 cents an hr? Nobody but the corporatists would be able to afford anything, including other food, property or services.

  • @cervantessssssssssss Schiff is not corporatist, he is the exact opposite. Libertarian.

    Of course you can build a wall to keep business in US, but do you remember how it turned out in USSR? And this would be basically US turning its back on the prime principles of the country.

  • Gold soldfor $35 an oz. and now $1085.00. Does that tell you what your paper money is woirth...Death of the west...

  • gold was artificially tied to the value of the U.S. currency for the period that the relationship was stable. That's not value in gold, that's just artificial pricing. It has varied dramatically, since, including a significant crash in gold prices during the 80s.

    But by all means, invest all your savings in gold. If there's one thing we can learn from Peter Schiff, it's that hyped-up assets never collapse.

  • Not that I dont think US dollar is doing well, but when was Gold traded at $35 / oz ?

  • from 1946 to 1971 gold was fixed at $35.00 an ounce which was to shore up the dollar but Pres. Nixon did away with the gold standard because of the cashing in of the dollar for gold. I was there and remembered all this happening.

  • @plyadies your comparing gold prices today to that of the 1920-30s era, which is not a fair or true comparison given one important factor called inflation, the best way to compare the price / oz of gold bullion is what peter lynch advocates which is a ration against for example the dow average

  • @plyadies what is paper money worth? Well, $1400 of paper money buys an ounce of gold. As long as you can trade paper for gold, I suppose it's worth something.

  • @jdjbarnat Yes it is still worth something but as you see I said gold was at 1085 and oz. and now you said $1400 an oz. Soon we will see $5000 an oz. And on the international world market our dollar won't buy much. Our imports will go sky high so we need to make more per hour and those on fixed income will have a nightmare. Shops are poping up all over buying gold for cash. They know something we don't ? Save your silver coins and gold.

  • @plyadies I'm not disagreeing with you. I realize the dollar will collapse. But the idea that the USD is worthless makes no sense. Why else would people always be comparing the worth of precious metals to the USD. We intrinsically associate the monetary value of all things in terms of paper money..which is stupid. If you asked me how much an ounce of gold is worth, I'd say it's worth an ounce of gold...that measurement of value is constant, tangible and unchanging...unlike the dollar.

  • @jdjbarnat lol, yes you are right and I like your comment .. If you asked me how much an ounce of gold is worth, I'd say it's worth an ounce of gold... I really don't know where this dollar is going. I hear talk of the Yen, wuan, and one other I can't remember as a world currency.

  • I love this guy. He is direct, truthful, and indirectly hilarious.

  • I wonder if Schiffty Pete's call to bomb Iran has anything to do with his prediction that the price of gold will rise to $5,000 per ounce?

  • A friend of mine who was assigned somewhere in Asia befriended an old, rich widow who said to him. It is much better to have a producing farm than a big bank account. Gold and silver are good but they have their limits. She remembers her experience in WW II when even the rich are also getting hungry and even have to beg farmers to sell them food even if they are more than willing to pay in gold, silver, and jewelry. Medical supplies & facilities are a best buy but you must be a trained paramedic

  • OK, you want to lump in people who are PAID to support something, then you need to throw Al Gore under the bus too. He will profit by the millions if the climate change theory is accepted and the laws to control it are enacted. He's paid by a number of corporations that deal with emissions controls. Make sure to include that fact when you comment on any climate change video. Beck is paid by gold sponsors and Gore is paid by emissions controls manufacturers. No difference, right?

  • The Wall Street Journal employs and is owned and operated by a bunch of tools. They're all told what to say, what to report, what not to say by the same assholes that control ALL the mainstream media. Research CFR and learn who really controls what you see on regular news networks. It's all a scam and for profit only. The run stories that will profit the corporations that own them and steer clear of those that might cause them to lose money. It's a total hose job.

  • Unfortunately these news reporters has an agenda, both personal and professional, to discredit people who are in the right so that they, these reporters, can save themselves from embarrasment and to protect their clients who has vested interests in maintaining the status quo and to destroy those who are exposing them. Reporters & journalists who allow themselves to be used by the powers that be who in turn are being supported and used by the greater powers that be, must be investigated, exposed

  • but if the economy plummets maybe we'll eat less and then we'll lose weight and live longer.

  • I do find it funny when the very people responsible for destroying the country's wealth, the baby boomers, talk about hyper-inflation and joblessness and how China now rules the world economy (sorta). The same people who have systematically auctioned off and sold our manufacturing base are now the very same people bitching.

    If you want to survive, learn a tech job and do it better than other people.

  • I'm going to laugh when the Gold bubble crashes and all these stupid fuckers loose even more money for following trend curves instead of being ahead of them.

  • I have a whole bunch of this stuff called human shit that is worth quite a lot according to my sources so I am willing to sell it for a short time only at below market prices simply because I choose to assign value to it based on its future value.

    Get it while it's good folks, it's not like we are going to start taking shit for exactly what is worth anytime soon.

    Buy my own brand of shit if it makes you feel better, I for one one will keep my imaginary cash in my imaginary bank.

  • So is Schiff on the GOLD payroll like Beck or what? I mean being paid for making endorsements and passing them off as legitimate information for struggling families....psh

  • No, my little lefty nutjob, Schiff has been pro Gold for many many years. Beck has been talking about buying Gold long before any sponsors came along. It's probably why Gold sponsors sought him out.

    Think for yourself.

    Question Liberalsim.

  • Thats funny, i didnt once bring up politics, liberalism or conservatism....yet when people like YOU feel your ideals threatened by independent thought u go start with "Nutjob" "Lefty", "liberalism"...lol how conservative of u, Beck got on the Gold train when they backed the Brinks truck up to his front door, Schiff may be different which is why I simply ASKED the question...but i Forgot that you folks dont Question ANYONE who claims to represent your interests, you only questions opposition.

  • You didn't have to bring up politics, one only need read your profile to see you are a politico extremist of the lefty kind. No, Beck has been talking about government fiscal irresponsibility for quite some time and how debt impacts the dollar. If you are a gold seller, this is your target audience. It should come as no surprise they would seek out Beck. For example, there is an interview Beck has with Schiff about Gold being a good investment this was back in 4/08.

    Stop being manipulated.

  • Keep drinking the right wing kool aide trav, mmmm ignorance really is bliss isnt it lol...dont patronize me, you are the walking talking embodiment of manipulation lol, who needs a PR dept when you can produce walking talking propaganda machines out of your viewers. Its win win, you boys are genius, have a great day

  • @729Drew

    Lots of words, no substance.

  • As opposed to few words no substance? You're really swinging for the fence on these short quotables, short concise easy to remember talking points...like i said, you guys are genius.

  • I gave you substance, I showed you Beck talking about Gold long before any sponsors.

    You made an accusation about Beck. I gave you the other side. And all you really have to say now is "you guys are genius" -in typical troll-like fashion.

  • Its not an accusation, Beck supports Gold, Gold pays Beck to support them...stop trying to paint it as theory when its fact. And You guys are genius, look how many people you've fooled, in typical Right wing Fashion...which usually includes a pair of high heels in your closet. Excuse me I have to put some water in your mothers dish. Enjoy the last word, i know you fiend for it.

  • Before Gold sponsors, Beck supported Gold. Without Gold sponsors Beck still supports Gold. Gold commericials generally air on conservative shows, not just Glenn Beck. Groups like Media Matters that are making a big deal about this are trying to make it out as though there is a conflict of interest, when there is none. But this is the kool-aid you drink. Live in ignorance and be manipulated. Then again, you are young and foolish so maybe u will learn. Thanks for the last word. haha

  • You are such a gullible fool, seriously don't buy your gold from Beck

  • And you think the liberal pundits you listen to aren't full of sheeet? Who should I buy my gold from? Keith Olbermann?

  • DON'T BUY YOUR GOLD FROM ANY IDIOT ON TV, RETARD.

    Use a reputable local dealer you can trust.

  • In May 2002, Schiffty Pete predicted hyperinflation, skyrocketing interest rates and the Dow falling to 2000 within the next two years. None of that happened. Let's face it, Schiffty Pete is just another fearmongering Republican politician.

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  • Actually, Schiffty Pete was very specific about the time frame. As to sources, please see his May 2002 interview on the You Tube video suggested below in the comments by billsaintkilda.

    Your statement that Schiffty Pete doesn't predict time frames is silly. Investing is all about timing. Of course, that probably explains why investors in Schiffty's Euro Pacific fund have gotten creamed.

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  • After reading more of your posts I'm sorry I even acknowledged you with a response.

  • @AtlasShruggery, what are you talking about? gold then was under $500 an ounce, now its around $1250, you don't call that inflation? I can't even buy a loaf of bread for $1 anymore, unless its some crazy sale, is that not inflation?

    He never said it was going to happen in 2 years, he said he didn't know when it was giong to happen, but it was going to happen, look at where we are now

  • RvNYC:

    Id laugh but....

    what you said is true and NOT funny!!

    gives a little creedence to what Pete says

    (hell we ALL know its true... slave labor, ie: 50cents an hour(in China) beats even NON -union labor in USA ANY DAY!!)

    (nothing like a GOOD OLD SLAVE....NIGGER.... CHINK....WHATEVER)

    Why do you think the South fought the Civil war???

    MONEY baby MONEY

    ITS ALL DOLLARS MOTHER-FUCKER

    ALL ABOUT DOLLARS!!! HOOOOOOOOORAAAHHH!!

  • America is not a capitalist society and hasnt been for along time.. looks alot like totalitarianism to me..

    read "the creature from jekyl island" for more.

  • No, my argument succeeds. Zimbabwe was ostracized economically but it still restored itself. Yes, Mugabe spent a lot but he had to to keep his power, otherwise Zimbabwe would have become a banana republic with a corrupt head who was pro-American like Marcos. Compare this to the US who gets loans from other countries and still gets an F. Zimbabwe with all the nations of the world imposing sanctions on it NOW has people wanting to invest in it. It shows the power of socialism.

  • And the person who implied that gold was partly responsible for Zimbabwe's recovery in that people used it as money, gold as currency is only a small part of it. The majority use Zimbabwean paper money.

  • LOL! The "power" of Socialism is a tiny few who benefit from the suffering of many having to share what is left. Don't you understand central control of money makes it impossible to know how much and what kind of currency the market needs to operate? China has it right, economically. The government stays out of fiscal policy and allows market-minded people to communicate with industry.

    The "Zimbabwe" argument is so tired. The U.S. would never fall into that situation sans a Fed.

  • wallstreet journal is biased

  • watch my last statement be wiped from the comment list tomorrow

    ("they" are watching )

  • doesnt matter what president you put in office...rep, dem , whatever ...he is just a puppet

    VERY LARGE Us corporations run this country not the president

    the United States of America is a FASCIST country

    pull out your Websters..look the word up

    read and TOTALY understand the meaning

    the only reason obama would be assassinated would be if he failed to do what he was told (by VERY large defense contractors..multi-trillion dollar oil corporations etc.)...NOT because he is black

  • What could be the motivation for the Wall Street Journal to try to discredit Peter Schiff? What could it be? Hmmmm. What supernatural force or being could be influencing them? Could it be....oh I don't know.....possibly.......SATAN!­!!!(Church Lady Voice) Seriously though, Bob Brinker

    should refrain from talking about his political opinion. He still thinks Obama is

    doing fine, that Bernanke is great, that the

    Fed is just peachy,etc. He's like a Suze Orman without the bleach blond mop top!

  • are you really asking "how" it can be cheaper to import nails?  If we got rid of unions, it would be much more affordable to manufacture in the U.S. No wonder obama supports unions.

  • The Keynesian believers find bubbles great and attractive...

    Well, the treasury bubble will bring the best economic boom this country has seen in years and then fizzle out and collapse tremendously 6-9 months from now, a year to a year and a half from now if they are lucky. Spending will pick up very rapidly and inflation will begin on the population level instead of Wall Street over this month due to Nov job numbers and the holiday.

  • the only way to save America is to put up a  Tariff and protection for parts of US manufacturing. China is advantageous because it imposes 24% tariffs, so of course everything from the world is expensive and hard to import into China. America needs to get rid of NAFTA, and all these fake "free trade" policies. The destruction of the US because of the wrong policies of Globalization.

  • The gravity of this does not sink in to peoples heads, even the Flags we wave at our July 4th parties are made in China! Look around your house if you can find a single Made in America label it's probaby only assembled here out of imported parts.

  • What do you think of Zimbabwe's turnaround in its economy by introducing its own money and getting rid of central banks? Doesn't that mean that Mugabe's socialism worked? Doesn't that show that gold is not needed? That it just requires what Lincoln and the Revolutionaries did, creating new money system independent of central banks? Paper money is not the problem, it's (private) central banking. Zimbabwe's recovery could have been predicted. Socialism DOES work.

  • I'm not sure where to even begin with this. Zimbabwe's "turnaround" came about because legal tender laws where abolished. That said, it's still one of the poorest countries in the world.

    You need to remember that the failure of paper money during the Revolution is why the Constitution declares that only gold and silver are lawful money.

  • Zimbabwe had hyperinflation because Mugabe inflated the currency to pay for government expenses. He could do this by "borrowing" from the central bank, which would simply print the money. Central banks are not private institutions in any meaningful sense of the word.

    Many Zimbabweans now use gold as currency.

    Your argument fails hard on all angles.

  • wall street journal is for losers it talks about yesterdays news thats why its bankrupt

    i listen to schiff because he has brains and makes me money

    wall street journal is for people who like to throw money down the toilet

    thanks peter great vid

  • Of course we can produce. We can do that easily by becoming the world's TAX HAVEN!

  • Schiff wants us to produce.

    We are not a third world country - we can't compete with 10$/day salary of the Chinese.

    We need educated, well-rounded people who can sell worldwide, engineer products and manage people not produce. That only works for military equipment and govt products who buy nationally.

    I want a senator who will prepare us for the current world not the great depression.

  • Turbo291: ughg, just look at Germany. Germany isn't China either. Yet they are one of the largest manufacturing/ezporting nations.

  • Most german manufactures use Polish labour due to lower cost and then final assembly and specialized work is done in Germany.

  • what the hell are you talking about

    america will be destroyed soon because we cant even make shoes

    not since the revolution have we become so incapable of produceing for ourselves

    you are an idiot

    i d i o t

    we dont even make nails here how can it be cheaper to import nails

    this will be the greatest depression a blind man in a dark room can seee this black cat

    except morons like you turbo

    you will be the first to starve and i will be the first to laugh

    watching you panic at the bank

  • The Afghanistan War, Iraq War which no country cares to stop is proof positive that the banks - international money - is protecting the US. If banks switch on us now we will either have a world war or nuclear war and US will be the target.

  • @winner502 Last I heard Nike is the biggest shoe Retailer in the world. The labor market is way too expensive in the US, it only makes business sense to manufacture them in China/India and Africa and THEN SELL IT BACK TO THE WORLD. it's cheaper to import nails then to make them in the US, come on use ur brain! A Chinaman can make the same amount of nails for 1/10 less money! Why would any business want to produce products with low margins in the US?

  • Haven't you heard? 10% is the new normal according to the current Administration. Go Peter!!

  • Don't be surprised if you here Schiff has been raced to the emergency room suffering from a massive ego ebolism to his right brain.

  • There were others who foresaw the economic disaster were they just "broken clocks" as well? You dismiss sound economic logic at your own risk.

  • @AtlasShruggery:

    Trolling AGAIN? You have too much spare time.

  • Didn't Krugman think the housing bubble was a good thing?

  • Krugman thought the housing bubble was a good thing, until he thought it was a bad thing.

  • Nah. Krugman warned about the dangers of the Greenspan bubble back when Schiffty Pete was still crowing about the Bush Boom.

  • LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLO­L

    OMG LOL AtlasShruggery did you really just say what I think you said??

  • Quit lying. Schiff never bought into the Bush-Greenspan bubble. It is a well documented fact that Krugman repeatedly called for the Greenspan Fed to create a housing bubble after the bursting of the dot-com bubble. Like most Keynesians, Krugman can't distinguish between an artificial bubble and real economic growth.

  • "It is a well documented fact that Krugman repeatedly called for the Greenspan Fed to create a housing bubble"

    Really? Did you hear that on Faux News? If it's so well documented, how 'bout providing a source? Have you ever even read Krugman's predictions of the Greenspan bubble?

    Krugman as well as other Keynesians like Roubini were warning about a housing bubble in 2002. Schiffty Pete didn't jump on the bandwagon until 2004 Schiff was a pimp for Bush's idiotic invasion of Iraq, too.

  • Schiff was always a harsh critic of Bush and has been calling this since 2002. Here is a clip from 2002. watch?v=rhJaVEWAG24

  • Okay, I watched the clip. So what?

    In 2002, According to Schiffty Pete, the Dow was going to fall to 2,000 within two years. Interest rates & inflation were gonna skyrocket. That never happened. The Dow went from 7,000 to 14,000 over the next five years. Schiffty makes no predictions about a housing bubble nor does he offer the slightest criticism of Bush or Greenspan. Further, Schiffty was a big pimp for Bush's idiotic invasion of Iraq which he claimed would reduce oil prices.

  • Nice try liar.

    mises. org/ daily/ 3539

    blog . mises . org/archives/010153.asp

  • Is that the best you can do? What exactly is this supposed to prove?

    Maybe you should consider actually reading what Krugman wrote instead of swallowing the bullshit from the discredited bozos at the Mises Institute.

  • Did you not read my previous post? The point is that Krugman doesn't understand basic economics, which is why he supports disastrous policies. I'm sorry if you have difficulty with reading comprehension.

  • "Krugman doesn't understand basic economics"

    Hmmm. Paul Krugman is a Nobel Prize winning economist with a PhD in Economics. Schiffy Pete is a Republican politician and stockbroker with a BS in Finance. What exactly are your qualifications?

    And did you even bother to actually read Krugman's predictions of the housing bubble or do you get all your info from the hacks at Mises and Faux News?

  • lol @ calling ppl from MIses Institute "hacks."

    Krugman didn't just "predict" this coming problem...he actually called for it and said we SHOULD have one. Nice try though.

    mises . org/story/3530

    (remove spaces in link)

    hope this clears things up a little.

    :-)

  • Yes, hacks. Typical editing job by a typical von Mises hack. Go back and read the entire Krugman piece if you have the guts. Krugman never advocated any such thing. It was a hypothetical and a not so subtle jab at Greenspan and the monetarist clowns.

    The fact remains that Krugman, Roubini and many other Keynesians warned about the housing bubble back when Schiffy Pete was pimping the Iraq war and babbling about skyrocketing interest rates, hyperinflation and the Dow falling to 2,000.

  • if that's what helps you sleep at night. I don't see how taking a direct quote is an editing job.

    There's another article that has an entire paragraph of what Krugman said so that it wasn't taken out of context...and he WAS advocating a housing bubble as the answer to the recession....and as most people who have ever listened to Krugman should know, Krugman always advocates fighting recession and never suggests the government should just sit idly by

  • (continued) and when did Shiff "pimp" the Iraq war? Last interview I saw he said we shouldn't have gone.

  • I'm given to understand that Krugman won his Noble prize for his early work on international trade, not for any insights regarding the business cycle. And what use is being able to predict bubbles when your policy prescriptions, if followed, inevitably lead from one bubble to the next? What sort of advice is Krugman offering to policy makers now? Does it look like he has learned anything from 2001-2002? As for my 'qualifications', I can at least learn from experience.

  • My only problem with Schiff is that he does not conform to the Austrian concept of apodictic statements... that is, he tries to make predictions rather than non-falsifiable statements.

    But I've read that Krugman loser and he's more full of crap than Bernanke. The only reason he has such a high paying gig is that he injects liberal politics into his nonsense. Any real economist would understand that politics and economics do not mix and are complete paradoxes of each other.

    Go away Randite.

  • Whether they saw it coming or not, they did nothing and kept the status quo, because that is their system. "The American System" of corporate bailouts and CEO's in private jets and limos begging for tax payer money.

    The economic hack Hamilton would be proud of your ignorance.

  • Hilarious how you are one of those goofy Ayn Randites, but you are also spouting religious nonsense on your page. Don't you know she claimed "religion is the enemy"? Well, she was full of crap. The State, a real entity that actually affects your life, is the enemy.

    Typical confused Randites.

  • Reading comprehension just isn't your strong suit, is it? Please consider revisiting my channel and reading more carefully.

    As far as I'm concerned, Ayn Rand is an egomanical sociopath who wrote boring fiction. Sadly, Ayn Rand groupies like Alan Greenspan didn't Go Galt before they wrecked the US banking system.

  • Why not produce the report yourself?

  • Lib Democrats

    Right Wing Christian ALL THE SAME once the finger pointing starts and .....

    "public" bickering makes a GREAT diversion to whats REALLY going on behind the scenes(transfer of billions).

    as fingers fly america is looted by amoral dem and rep christians working like rats behind the fray

    the free press that SHOULD be minding the store is paid off and amoral

    hence...

    america remains divided

    division = WEAKNESS

    the end of the american empire is on the horizon

  • Nothing like a WSJ hatchet job...

  • Peter, they're not going to give you a favorable report, you've offended them by suggesting that the fed SHOULDN'T be doling out virtually free credit.

  • Should have been "we're paying them with".

  • "They're going to have to buy stuff from abroad"

    But we can keep trading pictures of dead presidents for manufactured goods forever, right? The Chinese aren't actually going to expect to be able to buy stuff with those green slips of paper we're them.

    Oh, crap...

  • Could you include all the things that the Lib Democrats have done to Kill jobs in the US ? The short list is, The EPA,NAFTA,

    Tons of Regulations,Stupid laws,Supreme cort, Aboution, and thousands of other things that Lib Democrats have done to the US ?

    ZZTWP :

  • and yes.....these comments will be gone tomorrow...

    check back and see!

  • ever since the amoral bush administration "shanghi'd" the press back at the start of bush's contrived invasion of Iraq, the "Free Press" has become extinct

    it has no function anymore except to brainwash

    lie

    cover up

    distort the truth

    omit facts

    mis-inform

    entertain nutcase christian agendas and ...

    make ALOT of money from VERY LARGE US corporations in doing so

    the USA is functionaly illiterate in the "News" department..has been for 7 years now

  • BrutusBlackest:

    you ARE correct

    YouTube deletes your comments on a regular basis

    the Federal Reserve is paying them to do so

    ANY information the public needs to see such as "real news" or "cold hard facts" is being deleted on a daily basison UTube and other venues

    NO ONE with a net worth over 6 billion can AFFORD the masses knowing ANYTHING except how to scrub hubcaps, make burgers etc...

  • Halloween is almost a year away, can we do it for xmas?

  • Isn't it that some 90% do-not work in Public sector ?? and they count Govt. as "growth"

    hehe....  wow

  • ...ok, I'm almost sure, youtube is editing and/or deleting my comments...I've commented on several schiffreport videoes and they NEVER appear in the comments list...OK youtube, I'll dumb it down, gee whiz

  • BrutusB , welcome to "Change" oh & neutering ur Voice.

  • You sir are my hero! ive been trying to explain what you said about the jobs to everyone and no one seems to listen or understand what im saying. we need production, but as long as company's can make things cheaper elsewhere. they arent going to keep the jobs here. there needs to be some sort of regulation on outsourcing. i cannot agree with you anymore! how many people are going to sell t shirts and change tires ect. thanks for posting.

  • EDIT: agree more* sorry about that

  • Some ppl below are saying that if gold drops in price China would just come in & buy to keep the price up.

    They certainly could do that.

    But the other side of the coin is that they can produce gold for about $300 per oz & they are capable of doubling their production.

    So it'd be like a corn farmer going to market & buying corn for 3 times what he's growing it for.

  • $5000 ounce gold coming up, countries are going bankrupt and these morons are trying to tell us everythings ok.

  • thanks for these videos they are great

  • The media is captured by the elite who steer the world and global corporations. Obviously, the Wall Street Journal wants "Senator" Dodd to get re-elected.

  • Peter forgot to mention that, if gold does fall, China's just going to step in and buy it anyway to diversify their reserves. The Fed is not the only source of price inflation anymore, foreign holdings are a potential threat too.

  • My question for Peter is how can you recreate a domestic manufacturing sector without protectionism?

    The probem has always been wages. Internally Americans compete with a foreign Cheap labor pool.

    Externally, it's worse, we face defacto slave leve labor pools.

    It seems we have an intractable problem to face down for at least a few decades.

  • You need more capital behind the labor so they can produce more than the slaves (1000 slaves building a road with a shovel v. 100 americans building it with bulldozers).

    We need to build better factories to outcompete the slave labor. Of course, now things are so bad that China has slaves and better factories, so as you say, it will take a long time to rebuild.

  • A long time is right. As Peter says, We are broke. We owe more than we are worth. And the present administration is set on a course which will break the Dollar (with the popular consent behind it)

    In such a world, how do you raise the Capital to compete in supersaturated markets, where no prospects for new customers exists now.

  • [if I understand the Austrian's international division of labor theory correctly] Let's say 1m people buy cars. They can buy foreign cars for $5k or can be forced to buy U.S. cars at $15k. Forcing them to buy U.S. cars is good for the car maker, but it costs the U.S. $10b in capital compared to the free market. So I think their answer is buy the cheap cars and use the xtra capital to build something else in another field. Plus hasn't worked for GM hahah.

  • So far it seems the American consumer has chosen to direct the extra capital at yet more cheap imported goods. Any US reinvestment of said gains seems to have gone into building the now empty mega malls where US consumers canbuy yet even more Chinese trinkets, Zhu Zhu anyone.

  • So the point (I think) is that when you don't protect the industries, maybe you don't directly compete in your neighbors field, but you allow faster capital accumulation so that you can expand your own economy into other fields. I think that's why they call it the "international division of labor" because you let the country who is good at something do it for you and you trade what you are good at and everyone benfits.

  • If their theory was wrong, then how would any nation other than the U.S. (or Britain)ever industrialize? Even with their slave labor, they couldn't have competed with our factories and they would never have gotten anywhere. It would be "whoever industrializes first wins." But we actually see that the Asians are overtaking us, even though they got into the game late. (ok, promise I'm done after 3 posts)

  • Overtaking us is an understatement. Seems China has remained true to the Communist dictum of hanging the Capitalist with the rope they themselves made, and to that end we've even hocked our children's future. Sadly.

  • "How can you recreate a domestic manufacturing sector without protectionism?"

    Well, for one, they could repeal regulations that make it more expensive to do business in the US than in China or other foreign countries. The truth, though, is that it will be a painful process. The productive sector in this country has atrophied severely, in part because we've been able to get free shit from abroad due to the dollar's reserve status.

  • I wish I lived in Connecticut so I could vote for you :)

    I'm in the same boat as luckyvet, I was waiting for a bit of a correction before really getting into gold and silver. At over $1200/oz every buck this correction shaves off means more gold for me =P

    Best of luck in your senate race!

  • He doesn't read books, its a sham. Who has a TV in their library and reads?

  • Arpification is either some GOV paid schill

    or some right(nut)wing (rush limbaugh loving)loser hell bent on destroying America

  • Who the hell is reading the WSJ anyway. LOL

  • good video

  • Hi Peter,

    Correction: It's December, not Nov. (: cheers

  • Supply creates demand, amen

  • I just completely zoned out watching this.

  • MrHarry46 is either some extremist or a Chinese propagandist.

  • Actually quite pleased gold dropped some more. Some more money came in & I'm getting several ounces on Monday.

  • britishjohn04:

    YOU MUST RUN FOR US SENATE IMMEDIATLY

    OR Is it Congress?

    president??

    doesnt matter ......

    WHO HAS THE MOST MONEY

  • Sadly my friend, I am just a permanent resident and not an American citizen and would not be allowed to run for office :)

  • britishjohn04:

    you paint an ever bleak picture

    too bad its all true

    Intestinal fortitude is an old saying ......guts another

    USA will need much of both in the coming years(oh plus brains of course)((thats what worries me))

  • Hi there MrHarry46. I agree but I fear there is no leadership to be found in the two-headed, one party system. I wish the USA would return to paper ballots and ditch those electronic fraud machines because I am sure that Ron Paul is cheated out of the Republican nomination when he runs. I think Ron Paul would start to put things right. I think he would end the fed, peg the money to gold and silver and gut government spending.

  • Thespartan18

    you have been ordained

    you shall now be forever stupid.....

    just like rush limbaugh your leader

  • USA has no friends

    after decades of killing millions/fucking EVERYONE it can over .....

    not many like the USA

    USA CAN NOT I REPEAT CAN NOT KILL EVERYONE ON PLANET EARTH

    it wont ..

    even the most silly rush limbaugh loving christians arent THAT STUPID

    just keep your nukes in your silos..China will WAX your fucking ass if you keep playing games

    george bush CLEARLY understood this when he went to CHINA and sucked the Premiers COCK for permission to invade Iraq

    Good Night and Good Luck

  • wtf are you talking about. You love china so much go live in that polluted totalitarian hell hole. Unfortunately your not allowed to say the leader sucked another leaders cock in that country. Well you can but they come to your house put a bullet int your head, harvest your organs and then charge your family for the whole process...Im not even being dramatic on that part that is really what happens to critics of the state of there.

  • Your response just seems so irrational and filled with anger, rather than reason and logic. No one is saying they admire China as country, in the sense of it's lack of liberty and freedom, just acknowledging it's economic position. Also consider the dwindling freedom here in America; free speech zones, patriot act, torture, martial law when ever the president wants it, detention without trial, etc. The political and economic liberties of Americans are always under attack, same in Europe too.

  • So the stimulus created jobs? I cant believe you just said that Schiff.

    YOU WERE WRONG dude....If someone is negative all the time of course they can hope to be right once in awhile.

    You were wrong and youre being laughed at by your peers. Your last efforts on Fast Money shouldve shown you that.

    You're a joke. Go spend the money you've made in the Bahamas, buying cheap liquor and women, and do us all a favor and STFU before you lose us money.

  • oh you silly americans

    China rules the world not YOU

    you WILL get used to it

    not like you have a choice

    there is a NEW kid on the block (he's only 6-8000 years old)

    its NOT USA

    USA didnt notice

    USA was too focused on its own ego

    who is that kid??

    CHINA

  • Actually the time frame is much longer than just the last year. The time frame you should look at is over the past decade.

  • Hasnt gone up that much over the last decade. It really has not seen a significant bounce since the early 80's and its been downhill from there until the recent recession and now the price of gold is going down again since the economy is recovering. I mean yeah there may be some inflation in the future but not the extent where gold will skyrocket.

  • Oh you mean the jobless recovery? How can you have a real recovery with over 10% unemployment, (higher if you use the correct figures), when the economy is based on 70% consumption? Just wait until the inflation kicks in and then they (govt.), kills manufacturing with cap and trade, more jobs will go and the US will be utterly destitute. Then factor in retiring baby boomers with lost savings and broken social security. Plus the debt from bailouts, wars and healthcare.

  • @Thespartan18--

    Well, your first post was hidden, I hate it when youtube does that cause of thumbs down, but I assume you're talking about gold?

    Gold is up 450% in the last decade, so I'm not so sure what you're talking about.

  • Keep up the Good Work Peter! I'm glad someone has the balls to tell the American People the truth. Thanks for having the courage to go against the grain, I support you! :o)

  • We only lost 11,000 jobs because of Christmas.

    Just wait till next month.

  • Dollar is still good, gold is bad, stay ignorant, stay asleep, stay dumb, watch TV, enjoy life, continue shopping.

    Hope people understand my point.

  • Hi Schiff...So I saw your videos under one of my video's "related videos" and I checked out your channel and your videos are actually good! Keep up the good work. Please feel free to click on my channel and subscribe!

  • dot kom

  • The dollar isn't going to "bounce" back b/c that's eventuality isn't apart of the design. Guys, this ENTIRE situation is artificial. That is, it is MAN-ufactured.The Gov't owned corportaion (which by definition sort of makes it , I don't know, facist) known s the FED, MAN-ipulates interest rates for just such a purpose. Power is the only thing that matter to them. But we are too occluded to see.

  • Dollar, I bid thee farewell...Forsooth, what's this balderdash?! The Amero?! Nay, but you are mistaken, good sir, surely. (Tsk*Tsk* Don't you guys recognize a hostile takeover when you see one?)

  • Yea your so RIGHT!!!! about the money spend on bailouts and job market is sad (depressed) for the people.

    I wonder how long the money would have lasted that we used to bailout Cos. if we had used the money to re-hire or not allow Cos. to lay off people by paying their salaries from the stimulus, strictly speaking. I wonder.......

  • Ron Paul's son, Rand Paul, is leading in the polls but he needs our help!

    December 16th Moneybomb!

    RandsTeaParty (.) Com

  • wsj= goldman thugs

  • did he say friday november 4 2009?

  • remember......americans run this country if americans are weak and brainwashed ei: by the very government THROUGH LARGE MEDIA CORPORATIONS then they are not in control of things that they SHOULD BE IN CONTROL OF meaning they are letting THEMSELVES DOWN. READ THE US CONSTITUTION MOTHER FUCKER I THINK NOW IS TIME YOU SHOULD WAKE UP GET OFF YOUR FAT ASSES AND READ YOUR VERY OWN US CONSTITUTION DO IT NOW the reason the US GOV is off the leash is because americans are fat lazy pigs
  • I think most americans have sat by idle... waiting watching hoping something would change hoping against hope why hasnt anything been done why hasnt anything changed well...americans have been brainwashed brainwashed by the media brainwashed into thinking everything is ok REMEMBER..MEDIA WORKS FOR THE HIGHEST BIDDER EVERYTHING YOU WILL EVER SEE ON YOUR TV SET IS PAID FOR BY SOMEONE read:....us GOV/Corporations OWN your ass(and mind) and you dont even know it
  • JOHN PAULSON IS SHORTING  GOLD

  • even peter is selling gold ITALY IS SELLING GOLD GERMANY IS SELLING GOLD BUYING DOLLAR BUY DOLLAR CHINA IS BUBBLE CHINA IS NEXT DUBAI

  • john paulson is selling gold

  • GOLD IS BUBBLE , THERE WAS BUBBLE IN OIL LAST YEAR  peter is selling gold and buying banks buy banks