Economic analyst Peter Schiff is not mincing words when it comes to the state of the United States economy. In fact, he isn’t wrong in the least when he says that this is the weakest manufacturing economy since the Great Recession of a decade ago.
The Institute for Supply Management said early in the day that its index of national factory activity dropped to 49.1, compared with a reading of 51.1 estimated by analysts polled by Reuters. “If anything the U.S. manufacturing data signals that the new tariffs couldn’t come at a worse time. It’s bad news on top of bad news. That’s why investors are so focused on negotiations” said Alec Young, managing director of global markets research at FTSE Russell based in New York.
And Euro Pacific Capital CEO, Peter Schiff agrees.
“This is the weakest manufacturing economy we’ve had in 10 years, basically since the tail-end of the Great Recession. So, for all the talk from Donald Trump about how great this economy is, how it’s the greatest economy ever, it’s the weakest manufacturing economy since the Great Recession. It’s weaker than it was pretty much at any point during the Obama presidency. And according to Trump, Obama was a disaster for the economy; he was a disaster for manufacturing. Well, maybe he was right, but Trump has proved to be an even bigger disaster than Obama.” –Peter Schiff, via Schiff Gold
Peter said that the only thing holding up the U.S. economy is a debt-financed consumption binge by American consumers and the US government. Basically, Americans are driving their economy with money they don’t have.
How much longer can people keep spending borrowed money that they don’t have and they can’t repay? And how much longer are companies going to keep retaining their workers when a recession is staring them in the face?” –Peter Schiff, via Schiff Gold
Peter Schiff: “We’re Not Borrowing Ourselves Rich, We’re Borrowing Ourselves BROKE!”
For all the talk from @realDonaldTrump about how great this economy is, how it’s the greatest economy ever, it’s the weakest manufacturing economy since the Great Recession. https://t.co/v5k8HJUI4u
— Peter Schiff (@PeterSchiff) September 4, 2019
Schiff also said that the dollar isn’t as strong now as people think either. It’s just stronger than the other fiat currencies out there. Gold and silver have been surging, and that should tell us something about the dollar. For all the hype about the strong greenback, the dollar index has increased by about 1% since May. To put that into perspective, silver is up by almost 30%.
“The dollar is not really strong. It’s not quite as weak as all the other fiat currencies, but it is weak. Gold and silver’s strength is basically showing you just how weak the US dollar is. It’s just that that weakness is not being reflected in the foreign exchange markets when all the other currencies are also weak. But the days where the dollar is the least weak are going to come to an end.” –Peter Schiff, via Schiff Gold
A weak dollar is all a part of this phony economic recovery the Federal Reserve created through manipulation schemes and money printing. This artificial recovery proves the government and central banks meddling in the free market will cause a recession that will be unlike anything in history.
“The more the Fed has to interfere with the free market, the more the Fed has to distort the free market by artificially lowering interest rates, the more mistakes that we make, the more screwed up the economy gets, which means the more severe the bust when the market tries to correct all the mistake that the government created and the Fed created.” –Peter Schiff, via Schiff Gold
Manufacturing? What manufacturing, it’s only 11.4% of GDP. In the meantime “Smoke & Mirrors” contribution is likely 50% or better.
Even an inoperative clock is correct twice each day. How long will it take before Peter Schiff is correct even once? Peter Schiff has been talking down and undermining the economy, almost as if on a crusade, for several years since the Trump presidency. Yes, someday that broken clock will be correct, and the market will correct violently, probably more due to Federal Policy than anything Trump has done, but in the meantime, Peter Schiff appears to be little more than a strident anti-Trumper doing his best to undermine public confidence in his own nation’s economy. That’s pathetic in my opinion! Seditionist. Disgraceful actually. Peter, take a layman’s advice (with advanced academic degrees in economics from NYU) please, crawl under a rock. We’re tired of your screed.
I don’t see it as undermining Trump as opposed to stating reality. It is all smoke and mirrors and its irresponsible to state how great the economy is when it’s so fragile W/O pillars of support. Naive trusting believers will put their life savings in. Is it false to expose corporate stock buybacks falsely raising values? Is it false to show what distortions QE has caused? Is it false to point out that with the preceding there is no price discovery a cornerstone of the functioning efficiency of capitalism? Stating its bullshit isn’t bullshit, stating its tangible reality is.
Fuck you Peter. You too Mac. Tired of your Chicken Little BS. You contribute nothing to preparedness. This site was originally about preparing for shtf. Now it is National Enquirer. Get back to your roots Mac… ’bout tired of telling you that. just about to be gone.
Easy does it there champ. No one can predict the time or place when all this goes down but this website has done nothing but help prepare for the worst. Mac Slavo and Co. have posted many articles on preparedness; now comes the news pieces that support it. Quit embarrassing yourself.
He says this every 3 months. When I see his name on an article, I don’t even open it.
Government numbers came in today, and Peter Schiff is ……… Wait for it……. Wrong again! Manufacturing numbers continue to be strong because of American consumers.
Why did the market jump 350 points today………..because Peter Schiff was wrong yet again…….
Mac, stop using this guys reports, he will be right about once in 20 years. The other 19, he is just struggling to get a headline.
No one should use anything Peter Schiff says to manage your 401K.
Jim Cramer of CNBC today made the statement, that the only ones hyping a recession are the media, of which he is a part. The reality is the economy is doing pretty good.