Stock Market: Hidden Weakness

In fact the vast majority of stocks, I think are down on the year. If you look at the Dow, you are talking about 30 stocks, but if you look at the Russell 2000 Index, obviously you have 2000 stocks there and a lot of those stocks are down quite a bit this year, some of them are down more than 10 percent. 

So, just looking at the broad averages does not give you a real picture of what is going on in the stock market because I think most people I would guess, their portfolios are down on the year.

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

Momentum Stocks Will Continue To Trend Lower

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

Central Bankers: "We Need More Inflation!"

I have never seen a situation where politicians and bankers would publicly admit how much they want to create inflation. See, they normally want inflation but normally they are not honest about it. They lie about it, they don`t even like to use the word inflation. They say, monetary stimulus, we need a demand boost or they have some kind of code word for inflation, I mean, Quantitative Easing, that is an euphemism. The government wants inflation but they call it quantitative easing.

But this is the first time that you really see politicians and more importantly central bankers, the people who are theoretically been entrusted to safeguard the purchasing power of our money, these guys are now saying that we need more inflation.

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