Hank Paulson Warns of Debt Crisis He Helped Create
The Peter Schiff Show Podcast
Peter Schiff
4.6 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Hank Paulson warns of a "vicious" debt crisis — but his only plan is to brace for it, not prevent it. That tells you everything.
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Former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson is warning about a "vicious" sovereign debt crisis and urging a break-the-glass emergency plan — but Peter Schiff points out that Paulson himself architected the bailouts and QE policies that made this crisis inevitable, and his only advice now is to prepare for the crash rather than prevent it.
Markets hit record highs this week with the Nasdaq up 7% on ceasefire optimism and oil dropping to $83, but Schiff warns the rally is built on the false premise that peace means rate cuts. The Fed's balance sheet has quietly grown over $200 billion in 2026 while M2 money supply expands at 5% year-over-year. Meanwhile, NYC Mayor Manda proposes city-owned grocery stores and taxes on non-resident condos — policies Schiff dismantles as the kind of anti-capitalist thinking that drives wealth creators to places like Panama, which is rolling out the welcome mat for every entrepreneur New York chases away.
Chapters:
00:00 Show Cold Open
00:57 Live From Puerto Rico
01:59 War Headlines Fuel Rally
04:12 Bitcoin Gold Silver Check
07:07 Fed Policy And Real Rates
08:54 Producer Prices Reality Check
11:09 Paulson Warns Debt Crisis
19:09 Panama Versus New York Taxes
22:21 How Wealth Gets Created
25:42 Fair Share And Job Creation
30:03 Wealth Creation Backlash
31:52 City Owned Grocery Plan
34:11 Profit Motive And Prices
39:18 Subsidies And Market Damage
43:25 Farm Subsidies And USSR
45:36 Taxing Nonresident Condos
51:06 Why Profit Builds Cities
51:59 Property Tax Critique
59:44 Closing Markets And Gold
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| 1:02.2 | Hi, everybody, This is Peter Schiff, and I am doing today's podcast live from Puerto Rico here. |
| 1:08.3 | It's about 9.30 in the evening on April 17th. And I just got back from about a week in Panama City, Panama, between my |
| 1:15.4 | arrival here in Puerto Rico and this podcast. I did stop in San Juan and I did a keynote at a |
| 1:23.4 | local investment conference. Meanwhile, it's been a big day or not just day, a big week in |
| 1:31.6 | the markets as I have been traveling. In fact, today the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ both closed |
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