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The United States is like the Titanic, and I'm here with the lifeboat trying to get people to leave the ship... I see a real financial crisis coming for the United States.

Topics: Real, People, Trying, Financial Crisis, Lifeboats

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The government can't create jobs; they'll destroy jobs trying to do it. The government doesn't have any money; all they have is a printing press. We need to free markets to create jobs; if the government wants to help, they should reduce their burden on the economy.

source: - "Jobs Are Disappearing Fast: Is There Any Relief in Sight?; U.S. Automakers Looking for $34 Billion on Capitol Hill; How to Keep Your Jobs and How to Get a Job". "Your Money", edition.cnn.com. December 6, 2008.

Topics: Jobs, Government, Trying

Greed is normally balanced by fear.

Topics: Greed, Balanced

Well, I don't like the UK. I haven't ever been a fan of the pound (sterling), and even though they are taking some steps in the right direction - more so than the US - in addressing some of their problems, I still think they're doing it much too slowly. So, I think that the pound will continue to lose value relative to some of these other currencies. I ultimately expect the pound to rise against the dollar, but that's not the best way to take advantage of dollar weakness.

Topics: Thinking, Fans, Dollars, Steps In The Right Direction, Sterling

One day we're going to look back at $1,700 with nostalgia. People are going to be shocked at how inexpensive gold was when it could be snapped up for such a bargain price.

Topics: People, One Day, Gold

The Fed is the biggest enemy of this economy. In fact, Ben Bernanke, as far as I'm concerned, he's public enemy No. 1. We're never going to have a recovery while this guy's in charge.

Topics: Recovery, Guy, Enemy, Public Enemies

The Philadelphia Feds manufacturers report for September revealed that despite a sharp slowdown, its prices paid index surged 257 points.

Topics: Philadelphia, September, Feds

Minimum wage laws make it illegal for a worker to accept a job that pays less, even if the worker needs that job.

Topics: Jobs, Law, Minimum Wage

Often President Obama's worst critics are Senator Obama and candidate Obama.

Topics: President, President Obama, Worst

The real bubble in China is in US Treasuries, in US dollars

Topics: Real, Dollars, China, Us Treasury

When private industry makes a mistake, it gets corrected and goes away. As governments make mistakes, it gets bigger, bigger and bigger and they make more, more and more because as they run out of money, they just ask for more and so they get rewarded for making mistakes. In the meantime that is exactly what we are doing by subsidizing companies which are failing, we have a reverse Darwinism, we've got survival of the unfittest, the companies and people that have made terrible mistakes are being rewarded and other people are being punished and being taxed.

source: - YouTube Channel "Talks at Google"/"Peter Schiff: 'Crash Proof'", www.youtube.com. May 06, 2009.

Topics: Running, Mistake, Government, Darwinism

There are no checks and balances if the gov is wrong, if a private entrepreneur makes a mistake, he goes bankrupt, the losses are cut, if he bets wrong, he loses, if the gov bets wrong, they just get bigger, they just appropriate more money, it's a bottomless pit, because they either get it from the tax payers or run it off a printing press.

source: - Authors@Google Event, 2009.

Topics: Running, Mistake, Cutting

Mutual funds are an overrated investment heavily promoted by Wall Street.

Topics: Wall, Mutual Fund, Investment

It can be argued that the U.S. brokerage and investment banking industry has transformed the modern American stock market into nothing more than a mechanism for transferring wealth from shareholders to management.

source: - Peter D. Schiff (2011). “Crash Proof 2.0: How to Profit From the Economic Collapse”, p.133, John Wiley & Sons

Topics: Banking, Management, Wealth, Investment Banking

You're worth what you're worth

Keynesians are to economics what witch doctors are to medicine.

Topics: Medicine, Doctors, Politics, Witch Doctors

Gold has intrinsic value. The problem with the dollar is it has no intrinsic value. And if the Federal Reserve is going to spend trillions of them to buy up all these bad mortgages and all other kinds of bad debt, the dollar is going to lose all of its value. Gold will store its value, and you'll always be able to buy more food with your gold.

Topics: Gold, Debt, Able, Intrinsic Value

We share management's vision that the recent regulatory changes, the large presence of Sprint Nextel in the 2.5 GHz band, and the near-term implementation of 4G systems make Oneida the right company in the right place at the right time.

Topics: Vision, Band, Management

Fifty-dollar oil is just another stop on the road to much higher crude prices.

Topics: Oil, Dollars, Fifty

The strength in gold is revealing the general weakness in the dollar.

Topics: Gold, Weakness, Dollars

All those commodities are going to have to rise in value as we are in short supply and we are printing too much money.

Topics: Too Much, Commodity, Printing

What got us out of the depression was capitalism, and we would have gotten out a lot quicker had the government not intervened.

Topics: Government, Capitalism

At some point, the dollar has to give. You can't just keep printing money, and monetizing debt, and buying bonds, without the dollar imploding.

Topics: Giving, Debt, Buying, Printing Money

The president says we need to raise the debt ceiling because America pays its bills. No if we paid our bills we wouldn't have all this debt. The reason we have to raise the debt ceiling is because we can't pay our bills and we have to borrow money because we don't have any money to pay our bills.

Topics: America, President, Needs, Debt Ceiling

I don't want the technology of the 1950s, but I want the free market of the 1950s.

Topics: Technology, Want, Free Market

People should have an escape valve for their money, their assets. If you have substantial financial assets, the government is going to confiscate the purchasing power of those assets and spend it.

Topics: Government, People, Financial, Purchasing Power

Printing money is merely taxation in another form. Rather than robbing citizens of their money, government robs their money of its purchasing power.

source: - "The Fault Lines Emerge". www.321gold.com. March 28, 2009.

Topics: Government, Citizens, Taxation, Purchasing Power, Printing Money

You don't drive an economy by consuming - the consumer is not the engine, the consumer is the caboose.

Topics: Economy, Consumers, Consuming

We're on a collision course for disaster. All we can do, all your viewers can do is brace for impactBuy gold. Buy silver Get as far away as you can from U.S. currency and the U.S. economy.

Topics: Gold, Silver, Far Away

Gold is not overvalued at $500, and gold will not be overvalued at $1,500 or $2,000. The real money is buying gold and putting it away.

Topics: Real, Gold, Buying, Buying Gold

It is production that creates purchasing power, not the printing press!

source: - "The Fault Lines Emerge". www.321gold.com. March 28, 2009.

Topics: Printing, Purchasing Power, Productions, Purchasing, Printing Press

The U.S. dollar is in terminal decline. America is tragically bankrupt, unable to pay its lenders without printing the dollars to do so, and enmeshed in an economic depression. The clock is ticking until the dollar faces a crisis of confidence like every other bubble before it.

Topics: Clock Is Ticking, America, Dollars, Terminal, Economic Depression

Printing money creates inflation, which weakens an economy. Unfortunately, this kind of common-sense thinking never seems to penetrate academic circles.

source: - "A Little Understanding Goes a Long Way" by Peter Schiff, www.businessinsider.com. March 7, 2011.

Topics: Thinking, Printing Money, Circles

Perhaps the most important reason to be skeptical of government inflation numbers is that the government, like a fox campaigning to guard a hen house, has many reasons to be disingenuous. As the world's largest debtor, the Federal Government is inflation's primary beneficiary.

Topics: Government, Numbers, House, Disingenuous

Most governments, not all of them, but most, certainly don't want their citizens using gold. They want them in the currency that they are creating. When they are debasing money, or printing money, they are spending it and they want it to have as much value as possible when they originally spend it. Of course once they spend it, it will lose value for them and everyone else that holds it. But they need demand for their currency. They need as many people as possible holding it and transacting it. The more people that use gold, the harder it makes it.

Topics: People, Gold, Printing

The only way to buy more is to produce more.

source: - "The Fault Lines Emerge". www.321gold.com. March 28, 2009.

Topics: Way, Produce

The real story of Detroit [...] can be summed up in seven words. Private enterprise built it, government destroyed it.

Topics: Real, Government, Stories, Private Enterprise, Real Story

You have countries that have lived beyond their means, with bloated governments, huge trade deficits, and people living off the government. Then you have others where poor people are working hard and underconsuming and their governments are buying all this debt and propping up the extravagant countries. All of this has to change. There's a tremendous moral hazard involved with this system.

Topics: Country, Mean, People

Once the dollar begins to collapse beneath the weight of all this new deficit spending, accumulation of contingency liabilities and the socialization of our economy, commodity prices and interest rates will head skyward.

Topics: Commodity Prices, Weight, Dollars, Socialization, Deficit Spending

Contrary to the rhetoric emanating from the American left, the 'rich' are currently paying a lot more than 'their fair share.' It is only a handful of mega-rich, those whose entire incomes are derived from dividends and capital gains, rather than salaries or business profits, who have the ability to pay lower tax rates than some members of the middle class. The left knows this but continues to build their 'freeloading millionaire' straw man because it makes good politics.

source: - "There's A Hidden 9 In Herman Cain's 9-9-9 Plan". www.businessinsider.com. October 18, 2011.

Topics: Men, Class, Salary, Mega, Capital Gains

A federal bailout would spare California from having to make spending cuts needed to bring its budget into balance. The matter has become urgent since California voters rejected several tax-hiking ballot initiatives. Rather than taking the vote as a signal to dramatically curtail spending, the state turned to the feds. If they get a free pass, the politicians can avoid fixing any of their past mistakes or preparing California for the future.

Topics: Mistake, Cutting, Past, Spending Cuts, Past Mistakes

The primary factor that enables our government to peddle economic snake oil is the dollar's unique role as the world's reserve currency, and our creditors' willingness to preserve its status. By buying up dollars and loaning them back to us through Treasury debt, productive countries give American politicians cart blanche to play Santa Claus.

Topics: Country, Unique, Play, Blanche

Once the government runs out of foreign and private sector bidders for new Treasurys, the Federal Reserve will be the only buyer, and the hyper-inflation cat will be completely out of the bag.

Topics: Running, Cat, Government

Most paper money initially existed as a substitute for gold. That's what gave it value. But right now what gives a currency value is other currency. Most countries hold reserves and the reserves are other currencies. If you are a backing up the euro with the dollar, what's backing up the dollar? I don't think it is going to go to a point where all you have is coins and bars of gold, but I do think that we are going to have to go back to a monetary system based in gold, not based on paper.

Topics: Country, Thinking, Giving

In a speech at the just-concluded G20 summit in London, President Obama urged Americans not to let their fears crimp their spending. It would be unwise, he argued, for Americans to let the fear of job loss, lack of savings, unpaid bills, credit card debt or student loans deter them from making major purchases. According to the president, 'we must spend now as an investment for the future'....instead of saving for the future, we must spend for the future.

Topics: Jobs, Loss, President, Credit Card Debt, Job Loss

We are an indebted family going out for an expensive meal to celebrate getting approved foe a new credit card. It might feel good (at the time), but we're still simply delaying the inevitable.

Topics: Feel Good, Meals, Going Out, Indebted, Approved

Confidence by itself, unless it has a valid basis, can get us into trouble.

source: - Peter D. Schiff, John Downes (2011). “Crash Proof 2.0: How to Profit From the Economic Collapse”, p.52, John Wiley & Sons

Topics: Trouble, Bases

There is simply no way to sustain an economy based on consumer credit.

Topics: Credit, Way, Economy

I think there are a lot of people out there that are speculating in the stock market. They have all kinds of tech stocks or social media stocks. If you want to gamble in the stock market, I would much rather gamble on a mining stock than a social media stock.

Topics: Thinking, People, Social Media

Over the past decade or so, you have seen the flip side of that as you've seen stock prices have come down a lot relative to gold. Now you are getting a change where people are more comfortable holding gold because in the rear-view mirror it doesn't look so bad for gold. Bonds have not come down as much relative to gold, but I think the bond bubble is going to burst and will be falling for years too. And gold will look that much better.

Topics: Fall, Past, Thinking

Miners produce the bullion. If there is going to be more demand for gold from investors and central banks, where is the gold going to come from? They have to dig it out of the ground and sell it. As the price of gold goes higher, their profit margins increase. So if you are very bullish like I am and think there is going to be a big increase in gold, it's a huge opportunity for miners.

Topics: Opportunity, Thinking, Gold

Of course if you happen to time the market really well, you can make more money with some of these smaller companies, but for someone with no exposure I wouldn't want to take the risk that they timed it wrong.

Topics: Risk

Central banks are choosing to increase their gold holdings as a percentage of total reserves. They obviously think there is a reason to do that. It doesn't make sense to back up one currency with a hoard of other paper currencies. There needs to be a real anchor there. I think that central banks are well behind the curve. If you look at the percentage of above-ground gold controlled by central banks, it's historically low. Hence the fact that central banks are trying to increase their holdings. They've got a long way to go to get where they need to be.

Topics: Real, Thinking, Long

Yes, when they're buying there are more buyers in the market and that's supportive of the price. The more buyers you have, the firmer the price is going to be. When central banks were selling it was a headwind the market had to overcome. Now it's a tailwind that central banks are joining the buyers.

Topics: Supportive, Overcoming, Selling

The fiat-based system has produced enormous global imbalances that are straining the global economy. Ultimately, I think the whole thing gives way and what returns is what existed prior to the dollar standard, and that is a global gold standard, which is the only thing that really works.

Topics: Thinking, Giving, Gold

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