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Peter Schiff: Economy, Dollar Headed for a Major Crisis Under Trump
Peter Schiff, CEO of Euro Pacific Capital, warns savvy investors they should start protecting their assets for a worst-case scenario because there is little hope of economic improvement as President Donald Trump near completion of his first 100 days in office.
“Donald Trump should already be disappointing a lot of people who thought we were going to get change, we were going to make America great again,” Investment Watch quoted Schiff as saying.
“We didn’t repeal Obamacare, that’s here to stay. Major tax reform is dead. We’re dropping bombs,” IW quoted Schiff as telling Future Money Trends.
“I mean it’s the same old same old right? Big government… bigger deficits… more cheap money… keep the air in the bubble. We’re headed for a major major crisis,” Schiff said.
Schiff also investors to keep an eye on the U.S. dollar, which Trump himself last week said was too strong.
“The dollar is living on borrowed time, literally. And so we just don’t know. It’s like a bomb with a fuse, but we just don’t really know how long the fuse is,” Schiff said.
“The dollar, I think is in a major bubble. I think it is in the process of topping out. I think once it completes this top it’s going down. And I think it’s going to take out the lows from 2008,” Schiff said.
“I think it’s going to go down for the count. Because the last time, what saved the dollar was the financial crisis, and that crisis resulted in everybody buying the dollar. But I think the next crisis is not going to be the same crisis that we had in ’08,” Schiff said.
“I think the dollar is going to be the crisis. I don’t think it’s going to be a bread and butter financial crisis. This is going to be a currency crisis. So it’s going to be the US government," Schiff predicted.
"It’s not going to be the mortgage markets that’s blowing up. It’s going to be the Treasury bond market that’s blowing up. It’s going to be the Federal Reserve that’s blowing up. And this is going to be a major major negative for the dollar, not a positive,” Schiff said.
Even Trump's former economic adviser cautions the president about his apparent recent policy reversal on the greenback.
Stephen Moore, one of Donald Trump's economic advisers during the campaign, said he was not concerned about most of the president’s latest policy flip-flops, but disagrees that the U.S. currency is too powerful.
“Advocating a weaker dollar is I don’t think good policy or good politics,” Moore told The Washington Post. “A strong dollar is a strong president, and a weak dollar is a weak president,” the Newsmax Finance Insider said.
Trump earlier this week said he won’t brand China a currency manipulator, retreating from core campaign promise, though he argued that a strong dollar is hampering the ability of American firms to compete.
“I think our dollar is getting too strong, and partially that’s my fault because people have confidence in me. But that’s hurting — that will hurt ultimately,” he told the Wall Street Journal. “It’s very, very hard to compete when you have a strong dollar and other countries are devaluing their currency.”
However, other respected economic gurus are much more optimistic and urge wary investors to keep faith in Trump.
David Horowitz, author of the best-selling book "Big Agenda: President Trump's Plan to Save America," told Newsmax TV that the market rally since Republican Donald Trump won the election has more room for gains as the president pushes his pro-business agenda.
“There's more upside. Starting from when he was president-elect he started this stock market boom,” he told the “The Income Generation Show.”
“There will be corrections. There are going to be setbacks along the way like the healthcare which they hurried too fast. If you're looking over the long term of this administration, I think the stock market is going to love Trump.”
Another of the most respected economic gurus of modern times also urges patience with the president.
Former Ronald Reagan adviser Larry Kudlow is urging any impatience investors to just give President Donald Trump to fully enact his strategies to reform healthcare, spark economic growth and redesign the tax system.
After all, Trump has been in office a relatively short time and has inherited a mountain of problems from the past two decades.
“He's trying to fix a lot of problems that have gone unfixed in the last 20 years,” Kudlow explained to CNBC.
“Donald Trump should already be disappointing a lot of people who thought we were going to get change, we were going to make America great again,” Investment Watch quoted Schiff as saying.
“We didn’t repeal Obamacare, that’s here to stay. Major tax reform is dead. We’re dropping bombs,” IW quoted Schiff as telling Future Money Trends.
“I mean it’s the same old same old right? Big government… bigger deficits… more cheap money… keep the air in the bubble. We’re headed for a major major crisis,” Schiff said.
Schiff also investors to keep an eye on the U.S. dollar, which Trump himself last week said was too strong.
“The dollar is living on borrowed time, literally. And so we just don’t know. It’s like a bomb with a fuse, but we just don’t really know how long the fuse is,” Schiff said.
“The dollar, I think is in a major bubble. I think it is in the process of topping out. I think once it completes this top it’s going down. And I think it’s going to take out the lows from 2008,” Schiff said.
“I think it’s going to go down for the count. Because the last time, what saved the dollar was the financial crisis, and that crisis resulted in everybody buying the dollar. But I think the next crisis is not going to be the same crisis that we had in ’08,” Schiff said.
“I think the dollar is going to be the crisis. I don’t think it’s going to be a bread and butter financial crisis. This is going to be a currency crisis. So it’s going to be the US government," Schiff predicted.
"It’s not going to be the mortgage markets that’s blowing up. It’s going to be the Treasury bond market that’s blowing up. It’s going to be the Federal Reserve that’s blowing up. And this is going to be a major major negative for the dollar, not a positive,” Schiff said.
Even Trump's former economic adviser cautions the president about his apparent recent policy reversal on the greenback.
Stephen Moore, one of Donald Trump's economic advisers during the campaign, said he was not concerned about most of the president’s latest policy flip-flops, but disagrees that the U.S. currency is too powerful.
“Advocating a weaker dollar is I don’t think good policy or good politics,” Moore told The Washington Post. “A strong dollar is a strong president, and a weak dollar is a weak president,” the Newsmax Finance Insider said.
Trump earlier this week said he won’t brand China a currency manipulator, retreating from core campaign promise, though he argued that a strong dollar is hampering the ability of American firms to compete.
“I think our dollar is getting too strong, and partially that’s my fault because people have confidence in me. But that’s hurting — that will hurt ultimately,” he told the Wall Street Journal. “It’s very, very hard to compete when you have a strong dollar and other countries are devaluing their currency.”
However, other respected economic gurus are much more optimistic and urge wary investors to keep faith in Trump.
David Horowitz, author of the best-selling book "Big Agenda: President Trump's Plan to Save America," told Newsmax TV that the market rally since Republican Donald Trump won the election has more room for gains as the president pushes his pro-business agenda.
“There's more upside. Starting from when he was president-elect he started this stock market boom,” he told the “The Income Generation Show.”
“There will be corrections. There are going to be setbacks along the way like the healthcare which they hurried too fast. If you're looking over the long term of this administration, I think the stock market is going to love Trump.”
Another of the most respected economic gurus of modern times also urges patience with the president.
Former Ronald Reagan adviser Larry Kudlow is urging any impatience investors to just give President Donald Trump to fully enact his strategies to reform healthcare, spark economic growth and redesign the tax system.
After all, Trump has been in office a relatively short time and has inherited a mountain of problems from the past two decades.
“He's trying to fix a lot of problems that have gone unfixed in the last 20 years,” Kudlow explained to CNBC.
- Source, News Max
Monday, May 8, 2017
Peter Schiff - The Stock Market Is a Joke
"The U.S. stock market rally is ending," said Schiff. "It's a bubble that is going to deflate."
Since the November election, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has surged over 12%. Additionally, the S&P 500 has added over 9%, and the Nasdaq has soared 13%.
But Schiff thinks the markets are extremely overinflated due to "investor optimism."
"We are not getting the Obamacare repeal, we are not getting the comprehensive tax reform, I mean we are not getting anything and still the stock market has not surrounded any of the gains from the Trump rally that was based on the expectation of a bunch of things that will not happen. What is going to happen is a recession!" wrote Schiff on his blog April 12.
However, according to Schiff, the real impetus that will topple this economy has already begun…
Since the November election, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has surged over 12%. Additionally, the S&P 500 has added over 9%, and the Nasdaq has soared 13%.
But Schiff thinks the markets are extremely overinflated due to "investor optimism."
"We are not getting the Obamacare repeal, we are not getting the comprehensive tax reform, I mean we are not getting anything and still the stock market has not surrounded any of the gains from the Trump rally that was based on the expectation of a bunch of things that will not happen. What is going to happen is a recession!" wrote Schiff on his blog April 12.
However, according to Schiff, the real impetus that will topple this economy has already begun…
- Source, Money Morning
Friday, May 5, 2017
Peter Schiff Warns This One Event Will Wipe Out Entire Generations of Retirees
According to Schiff, a new housing bubble, an overvalued stock market, and President Trump's proposed stimulus plan will send the U.S. into extreme panic at some point in the near future.
In fact, Schiff thinks these catalysts will combine to cause an "inflationary maelstrom" that will "wipe out entire generations of retirees" who have their nest eggs invested in the market.
Let's take a look…
Schiff Sees a New Kind of Echo Bubble
This new housing bubble – coined an "echo bubble" by some economists – is something we've warned you about before.
In the United States, there are at least six major cities –ones that recovered from the recession too fast – that meet the criterion for bubble status: Their housing markets are considered overvalued (above 0.5%), and their housing prices have skyrocketed well above 15% within the last five years…
In fact, some have seen over a 50% increase since 2011.
What Is an Echo Bubble?
A post-bubble rally that becomes another, smaller bubble. For example, after the technology bubble that occurred at the turn of the 21st century – one of the biggest bubbles of all time – people believed that another echo bubble was on the way.
However, "[t]his bubble is different because it's an institutional bubble," said Schiff. "You have record ownership of single-family homes by hedge funds and private-equity funds. They bought these things up in '09 or '10 or '11, and their plan was to rent them out for a while and then sell them to other tenants."
Here's the problem…
"The tenants are now broke," said Schiff. "They're unemployed — they have credit card debt, auto debt — they can barely afford to even rent the houses!"
However, this housing bubble alone won't crash the economy, according to Schiff.
In fact, Schiff thinks these catalysts will combine to cause an "inflationary maelstrom" that will "wipe out entire generations of retirees" who have their nest eggs invested in the market.
Let's take a look…
Schiff Sees a New Kind of Echo Bubble
This new housing bubble – coined an "echo bubble" by some economists – is something we've warned you about before.
In the United States, there are at least six major cities –
In fact, some have seen over a 50% increase since 2011.
What Is an Echo Bubble?
A post-bubble rally that becomes another, smaller bubble. For example, after the technology bubble that occurred at the turn of the 21st century – one of the biggest bubbles of all time – people believed that another echo bubble was on the way.
However, "[t]his bubble is different because it's an institutional bubble," said Schiff. "You have record ownership of single-family homes by hedge funds and private-equity funds. They bought these things up in '09 or '10 or '11, and their plan was to rent them out for a while and then sell them to other tenants."
Here's the problem…
"The tenants are now broke," said Schiff. "They're unemployed — they have credit card debt, auto debt — they can barely afford to even rent the houses!"
However, this housing bubble alone won't crash the economy, according to Schiff.
- Source, Money Morning
Tuesday, May 2, 2017
GoldSeek Radio - April 14 2017 [PETER SCHIFF & BILL MURPHY]
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