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The Peter Schiff Show Podcast

Do the Math: The U.S. is an Insolvent Zombie Nation – Ep 577

The Peter Schiff Show Podcast

Peter Schiff

News, Business, Investing, Business News, Politics

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Market rallying on hope and hype.
Trump’s odds of winning re-election continues decreasing.
Chinese trade deals unwind.
Stimulus more dangerous than virus.
Everything that can go wrong, likely will go wrong, all at the same time.
American taxpayers stuck with 8 years of tax debt and counting.
We are a zombie country and the world is about to find out we’re insolvent.
Jerome Powell saying the antithesis of what a Fed Chair should be saying.
Investors have a lot left to learn, which leaves gold stocks a lot of room to gain.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

The Peter Ships Show.

0:09.0

Well, hope everybody had a very good Memorial Day weekend.

0:13.1

The stock market came back from the three-day weekend with back-to-back 500 plus point rallies.

0:21.4

Today's gained 553 points.

0:24.0

I think yesterday's was slightly over 500.

0:27.2

Although I think one point in today we were up better than 700.

0:31.3

Interestingly enough, the supposed catalyst for Tuesday's rally was another company that

0:40.0

had announced a pre-market that they had started phase one testing of a COVID-19 vaccine.

0:48.2

The market was rallying on this.

0:52.3

First of all, the market is already pricing in an eventual vaccine.

0:58.6

I mean, that is the scenario that everybody assumes.

1:03.0

I mean, yes, the vaccine is a year or two away, but it is in the market that there will

1:08.7

be a vaccine.

1:10.4

I mean, could you imagine where the market would be right now if nobody believed that we

1:15.4

were going to have a vaccine, right?

1:17.2

If the sheltering in place and the social distancing was going to continue indefinitely,

1:23.6

so clearly the market is expected vaccine.

1:27.0

Well, we can't have a vaccine unless we have companies doing a phase one trial.

1:31.9

I mean, that is just the first step in a long process to get a vaccine.

1:37.9

Because remember, you have phase one, you have phase two, and then you have phase three.

1:44.4

So you have to get through all of these phases and they get progressively more difficult.

1:50.4

They keep on raising their hurdle that you have to clear to get a drug approved.

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