Foreign Stock Markets: My Favorites

My point is, in order to save the stock market, they sacrifice the U.S. Dollar. That is the real concern investors need to have. Not just the U.S. stock market going down but the dollar and the way to protect yourself from that is to invest in countries against which the U.S. Dollar will be falling. So, we are buying stocks in markets like New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, certain emerging markets, Australia and Canada.

There are parts of Europe that I like, Switzerland, parts of Scandinavia.

Peter Schiff is an American businessman, investment broker and financial commentator. Schiff is the CEO and chief global strategist of Euro Pacific Capital Inc.

How To Use Your Overpriced Dollars

There are a lot of currencies that have gone way down because speculators have bet that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates and this has suppressed the value of these currencies.

So, rather than taking a vacation in these countries to take advantage of a cheap hotel room, use your overpriced U.S. Dollars to make some strategic investments in their stock markets.

Peter Schiff is an American businessman, investment broker and financial commentator. Schiff is the CEO and chief global strategist of Euro Pacific Capital Inc.

Investing: International Diversification

I think there is a whole world out there, in particular certain countries that do not have anywhere near the enormity of the problems that the United States does. In fact, if I were as convinced as everybody else that the Federal Reserve was actually going to raise rates sometime this year, I would be even more negative on the U.S. stock market than I am now.

Because I think the Federal Reserve is going to rescue the stock market with QE 4 but when do do that they sacrifice the U.S. Dollar.

Peter Schiff is an American businessman, investment broker and financial commentator. Schiff is the CEO and chief global strategist of Euro Pacific Capital Inc.

The Economy is Slowing Down And Inflation Is Picking Up

So again, here we have horrible economic data, data so bad that we have to go all the way back to the Great Recession to find data that is comparable and inflation is getting worse. The inflation is picking up despite the fact that the economy is slowing down and somehow this is supposed to be good news? Somehow we are supposed to look at this as victory for the Federal Reserve, that we are now now moving into stagflation?

Peter Schiff is an American businessman, investment broker and financial commentator. Schiff is the CEO and chief global strategist of Euro Pacific Capital Inc.

U.S. Economy: More Bad News, Philly Fed Just Off A 15-Month Low

We went down again to 6.70 for the Philly Fed Index, we are just off a 15-month low in that index and we have now missed expectations five out of the last 6 months that number has come in below estimates.

Peter Schiff is an American businessman, investment broker and financial commentator. Schiff is the CEO and chief global strategist of Euro Pacific Capital Inc.

This Is Stagflation

The fact that inflation is heating up just as the economy is cooling down should not be a positive sign. I mean, this is stagflation. Why would they be happy about that? Because all the economic data has been soft and now we have higher inflation.

Peter Schiff is an American businessman, investment broker and financial commentator. Schiff is the CEO and chief global strategist of Euro Pacific Capital Inc.

Federal Reserve: Raising Interest Rates Is The Last Thing They Want To Do

They do not want to admit that raising interest rates is impossible without pricking the bubble that that they do not want to admit that exists. So, the last thing they really want to do is to raise interest rates.

Peter Schiff is an American businessman, investment broker and financial commentator. Schiff is the CEO and chief global strategist of Euro Pacific Capital Inc.

Yellen: What She Really Said About Interest Rates

Janet Yellen said that higher rates would be appropriate later this year, she did not say when, she did not say June, she just said later this year, provided that the economy continues to improve along the lines that the Federal Reserve expects. Now, exactly what those lines are, we do not know because the Federal Reserve does not want to tell us because they do not want to put themselves in a corner where they actually have to raise rates.

Peter Schiff is an American businessman, investment broker and financial commentator. Schiff is the CEO and chief global strategist of Euro Pacific Capital Inc.

Federal Reserve: Higher Prices, Higher Minimum Wages

Inflation is the business the Federal Reserve is in. It creates inflation, it has been creating it for years and it manifests itself in many different ways: higher prices being one of them. Wages are simply a price of labor. But what is happening through out the country is this push for the minimum wage increase. Look at what is happening in Los Angeles, they just increased their minimum wage to 15 dollars which is going to be phased in over the next 5 years, which will delay the damage somewhat.

But while this is going to be problematic for businesses it is going to be a much bigger problem for all the workers in Los Angeles who cannot get jobs because what the law does is, it says that if you have minimum skills and if you cannot convince an employer to pay you 15 dollars an hour, it is illegal for you to work, so many people will not get jobs.

Peter Schiff is an American businessman, investment broker and financial commentator. Schiff is the CEO and chief global strategist of Euro Pacific Capital Inc.

Wal-Mart (WMT): A Bad Quarter And It Probably Get Worse

One of the bigger signs that the economy is weakening came from Wal-Mart (WMT), which came out with their earnings on Tuesday and way below estimates. Not only were their profits down but their revenues were down. A really bad quarterly report. The stock was down 4 or 5 percent and it is now down 16 percent from its record high printed in January when everybody was so optimistic about this recovery and everybody thought that consumers were going to take their windfall from cheap gasoline prices and spend it on Wal-Mart (WMT).

Well, it did not happen. Wal-Mart (WMT) had a very, very bad quarter and it is probably only going to get worse for Wal-Mart (WMT) particularly now that they are raising their wages and so you are going to have rising costs as well as slowing revenues.

Peter Schiff is an American businessman, investment broker and financial commentator. Schiff is the CEO and chief global strategist of Euro Pacific Capital Inc.

The U.S. Economy Is Addicted To Zero Percent Interest Rates

We have had zero percent interest rates for 6 years. We are addicted to zero percent. We can`t handle even 2 percent even though that is historically low, that is not low enough for the addiction that we have.

Peter Schiff is an American businessman, investment broker and financial commentator. Schiff is the CEO and chief global strategist of Euro Pacific Capital Inc.

If The Fed Raises Rates, We Will Have A Worse Financial Crisis Than In 2008

An interest rate hike is not coming into play, actually it has never been on the table. Again, this is all part of the posturing from the Federal Reserve. If they can`t come out and tell the truth, that it is impossible to raise interest rates because then we would be back in recession. In fact, we would have a worse financial crisis than in 2008.

Peter Schiff is an American businessman, investment broker and financial commentator. Schiff is the CEO and chief global strategist of Euro Pacific Capital Inc.

Yellen Does Not Want The Stock Market To Go Down

People have been reaching for yield in years thanks to the Federal Reserve. Janet Yellen said that stocks are not necessarily overvalued relative to bonds yields. But if the Federal Reserve is going to be raising interest rates, bond yields are going to be rising and then the stock market will have to come down. So, that is why I think the Federal Reserve is not going to raise rates.

I do not think that Yellen wants the stock market to go down because this phony economic recovery is based on asset bubbles and the Federal Reserve is not going to intentionally prick those bubbles.

Peter Schiff is an American businessman, investment broker and financial commentator. Schiff is the CEO and chief global strategist of Euro Pacific Capital Inc.

Industrial Production: Worst Losing Streak Since 2009

In the Industrial Production (April), this is now the fifth consecutive monthly decline in Industrial Production. This is the longest losing streak that we have had in that data point since 2009. So again, here is another time where you have to go back to the Great Recession to find economic numbers as bad as the ones we are getting right now, supposedly on the doorstep of a Federal Reserve interest rate hike.

Peter Schiff is an American businessman, investment broker and financial commentator. Schiff is the CEO and chief global strategist of Euro Pacific Capital Inc.

Is The Stock Market Embracing Bad Economic News?

The markets continue to ignore or maybe they are embracing all the bad economic data that keeps coming out. The S&P 500 Index closed the week at a new all-time high, the Dow Jones Industrials Index just barely off a record high. While the stock market continues to rally, the dollar continues to fall.

Peter Schiff is an American businessman, investment broker and financial commentator. Schiff is the CEO and chief global strategist of Euro Pacific Capital Inc.

U.S. Economy: An Official Recession For The First Half of 2015?

What is more likely to happen is that we get a negative number again for Q2. We can have the second quarter GDP actually contract. And if we get a contraction in the second quarter which follows a contraction in the first quarter, that is an official recession. That would mean the U.S. Economy is in recession for the first half of 2015. If that is the case and that may very well be the case, how is the Federal Reserve going to raise interest rates?

Peter Schiff is an American businessman, investment broker and financial commentator. Schiff is the CEO and chief global strategist of Euro Pacific Capital Inc.

More Economic Bad News

Another week, another round of bad economic news. Maybe Wall Street is finally starting to pay attention but I am still not sure the message has sunk in.

Peter Schiff is an American businessman, investment broker and financial commentator. Schiff is the CEO and chief global strategist of Euro Pacific Capital Inc.

Retail Sales: Another Big Economic Disappointment

April Retail Sales have missed estimates in four out of the last five monthly reports. The year over year rise of just 0.9 percent was the weakest report since November of 2009.

Peter Schiff is an American businessman, investment broker and financial commentator. Schiff is the CEO and chief global strategist of Euro Pacific Capital Inc.

What The Federal Reserve Is Afraid Of

The reality is, the economy is weakening and is weakening rapidly. The markets, the pundits, the economist and the Federal Reserve do not want to acknowledge the obvious because they are afraid of the way the markets might react to it.

Peter Schiff is an American businessman, investment broker and financial commentator. Schiff is the CEO and chief global strategist of Euro Pacific Capital Inc.

The Stock Market Is Sensing That The Fed Is "On Pause"

I think the stock market is sensing that this means the Federal Reserve is on pause, which of course it is because this really is not a good number regardless of the way people want to spin it.

Peter Schiff is an American businessman, investment broker and financial commentator. Schiff is the CEO and chief global strategist of Euro Pacific Capital Inc.

The Jobs Report Is Awful Beneath The Surface

If you look beneath a very superficial layer, what you reveal is a very ugly picture when it comes to the April jobs report. But nobody wants to do that. They don`t want to bother or they are afraid of what they might see.

Peter Schiff is an American businessman, investment broker and financial commentator. Schiff is the CEO and chief global strategist of Euro Pacific Capital Inc.

Gold: Some Overhead Resistance Above 1,200 Dollars

Gold is just below 1200 dollars an ounce. Its really been banging up and down. Every time it gets above 1200 they seem to smash it back down but of course whenever they smash it back down the buyers show up, so they really can`t break the market but there is still an overhead resistance to keep it from exploding.

But I think eventually the buying is going to overtake the selling and we will run out of sellers in the gold market and when it finally goes up, it is going to go up in a rather spectacular way.

Peter Schiff is an American businessman, investment broker and financial commentator. Schiff is the CEO and chief global strategist of Euro Pacific Capital Inc.

Video: Why Gold Will Go Ballistic

Peter Schiff is an American businessman, investment broker and financial commentator. Schiff is the CEO and chief global strategist of Euro Pacific Capital Inc.

Stock Market: A Schizophrenic Type Market

The Dow Jones Industrials which was down about 200 points on Thursday, was up 183 points on Friday. The Nasdaq was down 80-85 points and recouped 64 points, so a real schizophrenic type market. I think the players are still ignoring reality and still clinging to the fantasy of a recovering U.S. Economy.

Peter Schiff is an American businessman, investment broker and financial commentator. Schiff is the CEO and chief global strategist of Euro Pacific Capital Inc.

U.S. Economy: An Alarming Ratio

The inventories to sales ratio right now is the highest since the Great Recession of 2008-2009. What does that mean going forward? It means that businesses are already loaded up with inventory, they have excess inventory, they can`t sell it. They are not going to buy any more.

Peter Schiff is an American businessman, investment broker and financial commentator. Schiff is the CEO and chief global strategist of Euro Pacific Capital Inc.