Capital One (ONE): Signs Of A Weaker Economy?

The Dow Jones Industrials just had its worst week since January. We closed the week at 17,568, down 518 points on the week. Friday`s drop alone accounted for 163 points.

An interesting corporate earnings news item that came out on Friday was Capital One (COF). They are one of the nation`s largest issuers of credit cards. And if the U.S. Economy was really doing as well as everybody pretends it is you would expect credit cards companies to be doing well because people have jobs, the economy is growing so the users are not falling behind on their credit cards. In fact they would be using more their credit cards to buy more things because they feel better about the economy, they are willing to spend more. So everything should be going well at Capital One (COF). Instead they came out with a huge earnings miss, the shares plunged by 12 percent!

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

We Have A Bubble Not A Recovery

Wall Street is assuming we are having a legitimate economic recovery. What we have is a bubble.

Trading tickers: SPDR S&P 500 Index ETF (SPY), iShares Russell 2000 Index ETF (IWM), Nasdaq 100 Index ETF (QQQ)

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

Podcast: Gold, Currencies & The U.S. Stock Market

Peter Schiff explains why he thinks the U.S. Stock market is dangerous now than it was in 2000 and why you should prefer Gold to other fiat currencies like the U.S. Dollar, the Japanese Yen or the Euro Currency.

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

Podcast: When Will Gold Take Off?

Peter Schiff explains on under which conditions in the future will gold explode higher.

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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.

U.S. Stocks Are Very Expensive

I do think U.S. stocks are very expensive and in fact it does remind me of the 1990`s bubble. And what is happening right now with gold reminds me of what was happening during the dot com bubble.

Remember we had a vicious bear market in Gold from 1996 to 2000. and it was the opposite of the New Economy. Everybody had faith in Alan Greenspan, the Maestro, they believed in the new era and gold got crushed, gold stock got crushed. The Wall Street Journal came out with an article, or the New York Times, "Who needs gold when you have Alan Greenspan?"

Well, we know how badly it ended. Everybody needed Gold, then Gold was up 650 percent in the next 12 years. So I think people are making the same mistake now.

Trading tickers: Newmont Mining (NEM), Barrick Gold (ABX), Goldcorp (GG), NovaGold (NG), Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF (GDX), SPDR Gold Trust ETF (GLD), SPDR S&P 500 Index ETF (SPY)

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 a Bigger Bubble Than The DotCom Bubble

This is a bigger bubble than the DotCom bubble.

Trading Tickers: SPDR Gold Trust ETF (GLD), SPDR S&P 500 Index ETF (SPY), iShares Russell 2000 Index ETF (IWM), Nasdaq 100 Index ETF (QQQ)

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