Jul 17, 2014

The Federal Reserve Is Financing Speculation

The Federal Reserve right now is redirecting money that otherwise would go to capital investment and now is being used to finance, as financial speculation. And what we need is more savings, and we are not going to get more savings with zero percent interest rates.

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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.

CNBC`s Liesman And Conventional Ignorance



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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.

Gold: A Real Short Squeeze Is Coming

Once all the speculators that have been shorting gold discover that their premise is wrong, that we are not getting this vibrant recovery and that we are not going to get less QE (we are going to get more) and that we are not going to have rate hikes, that the Federal Reserve is going to keep interest rates at zero in order to prop up this phony bubble economy that they inflated, you are going to see a mad rush from all the short sellers that are going to be anxious to buy back their money losing positions.

But that`s going to be a lot more difficult because there is not going to be a lot of gold around. Because a lot of the gold that was liquidated in the second half of 2013 is not going to be available for sale in the second half of 2014. That gold was probably purchased by entities that never intend to sell it. So, I think we are going to have a real short squeeze and we are going to have a big rally probably beginning here in the second half of 2014.

Related Exchange Traded Funds and Stocks: SPDR Gold Trust ETF (GLD), Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF (GDX), Newmont Mining (NEM), Barrick Gold (ABX), Goldcorp (GG)

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

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