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The Peter Schiff Show Podcast

Spin Of The Union

The Peter Schiff Show Podcast

Peter Schiff

Business, Politics, News, Business News, Investing

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Trump claims we have the hottest economy in the world and the greatest turnaround in history, but the numbers tell a completely different story—GDP growth actually slowed under his watch, the stock market is the worst performer globally, and he's ignoring the real crisis ahead: a sovereign debt catastrophe that will make 2008 look like a warm-up act.


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Peter Schiff delivers a scathing critique of Trump's State of the Union address, systematically debunking what he calls numerous economic lies and misrepresentations. Schiff argues that Trump's claims about achieving the "hottest economy in the world" and a "historic economic turnaround" are completely false, pointing out that GDP growth actually slowed from 2.8% under Biden's final year to 2.4% in Trump's first year. He criticizes Trump's housing policy of keeping prices artificially high while suppressing mortgage rates, calling it the same failed approach that led to the 2008 financial crisis, and disputes claims about record-breaking tax cuts, inflation solutions, and stock market performance.


Beyond exposing what he sees as outright fabrications, Schiff condemns Trump's economic policies as fundamentally socialist, including the ban on Wall Street buying single-family homes, government intervention in power plant construction, and various spending programs disguised as tax cuts. He warns that these policies will accelerate inflation and fiscal crisis, predicting that the resulting economic collapse will be blamed on Republicans and capitalism, paving the way for Democratic victories and more socialist policies. Schiff urges listeners to protect themselves by investing in gold, silver, and foreign stocks, noting that gold mining stocks are hitting new highs ahead of the metals themselves, which he sees as a bullish leading indicator.


Chapters:

00:00 Show Intro Montage

00:55 State of the Union Setup

03:36 Housing Prices and Rates

10:24 Stock Market Bragging

15:54 Economy Claims and Inflation

31:10 Gas and Economic Bragging

32:48 Tariffs Supreme Court and Trade Reality

35:56 Taxes Entitlements and Price Claims

39:26 Healthcare Drugs and Anti Socialism Rants

53:05 Fiscal Cliff and Gold Strategy


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Transcript

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0:00.0

I make no friends in the pits and you take no prisoners.

0:04.8

One minute, you're up half a million in soybeans and the next boom.

0:07.3

Your kids don't go to college and they've repossessed your Bentley.

0:09.2

Are you with me?

0:09.9

The revolution starts now.

0:12.2

Starts now.

0:13.6

We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.

0:17.8

Turn those machines back on.

0:19.8

You are about to enter the Peter Schiff's show.

0:23.7

Show.

0:25.5

If we lose freedom here, there's no place to escape to.

0:28.2

This is the last stand on Earth.

0:29.5

The Peter Schiff Show is on.

0:31.5

I don't know when they decided that they wanted to make a virtue out of selfishness.

0:35.3

Your money.

0:36.5

Your stories.

0:37.6

Your freedom. The Peter Sch of selfishness. Your money. Your stories. Your freedom.

0:38.7

The Peter Schiff's show.

0:56.0

Welcome, everybody.

1:09.0

Well, hopefully everybody got a chance to listen to the longest, I think, state of the union address ever, at least the longest one I can remember watching.

1:11.7

And, you know, it started even later for me here in Puerto Rico because we're an hour past East Coast time.

1:16.5

So the president started to talk at 10 o'clock.

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