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The Peter Schiff Show Podcast

The Most Anticipated Yet Least Significant Rate Hike Ever – Ep 788

The Peter Schiff Show Podcast

Peter Schiff

Business, Politics, Business News, Investing, News

4.7 β€’ 5.8K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 17 March 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary


* Elizabeth Warren blames covid and corporations for problems caused by Congress.
* Bond market thinks the recession will cure inflation; it won't.
* Congressional staffers get a huge pay raise, paid by taxpayers.
* Small rate hikes will hurt the stock market, not the gold market.
* Fed is doing the minimum it can get away with to try to save face.
* You live by low interest rates, you die by high interest rates.



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0:00.0

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0:09.2

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0:41.2

Today the Federal Reserve finally delivered the most highly anticipated and probably the most

0:48.4

absolutely meaningless 25 basis point rate hike in its history.

0:54.8

At one point, there were some people who thought that maybe Powell would lift off with

1:00.3

a 50 basis point hike, but Powell pretty much threw cold water on that during his semi-annual

1:07.6

congressional testimony where he came out and said that he was prepared to raise rates

1:13.3

by 50 basis points.

1:14.6

Now, the decision to raise by just 25 wasn't unanimous.

1:19.2

There was one lone holdout, Bullard, who wanted to go the full 50 basis points, but even

1:25.6

50 basis points would be too little too late to do anything to derail this juggernaut

1:32.0

of inflation that has already been unleashed.

1:36.1

And I think the reason that Powell even was able to move by 25 basis points is because

1:42.1

the markets had pretty much given him the green light for that increase.

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