Why Buy Bonds When You Can Buy Gold? – Ep. 178
The Peter Schiff Show Podcast
Peter Schiff
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🗓️ 1 July 2016
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
* I wish everybody a happy July 4th weekend; U.S. markets will be closed
* It's unfortunate that we can't really celebrate all the traditions that we're supposed to be honoring were lost generations ago
* The values our founding fathers risked their lives for have all been lost
* I wanted to comment on what is going on in the markets particularly today
* Today was the capper on the week
* You had silver prices up about a dollar an ounce
* Gold closed up about $19, so gold closed above $1340
* Maybe by the time the market opens on Tuesday silver will be over $20/ounce
* Who knows, maybe gold will be over $1400?
* This is a powerful rally - gold finished at three year highs today
* GDX was up about 5% on the day
* The stock market didn't do that much today, but the real story, other than the gold market is in the bond market
* U.S. Treasury yield plunging again - these are the lowest yields ever
* Certainly below the crash lows
* The yield on the 10-year treasury is below 1.5%
* The yield on the 10-year treasury is 2.24%
* So yields are plunging, bond prices are surging
* What is going on?
* The answer is money printing; Quantitative Easing
* The most recent catalyst being the Brexit vote, which scared the hell out of everybody because of the collapse, particularly of the European banks
* Now the central bankers are rushing to the rescue all around the world
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| 0:00.0 | Well, let me start off by wishing everybody a happy 4th of July holiday weekend. |
| 0:14.1 | US markets will be closed on Monday in observance of the holiday. |
| 0:20.4 | Canadian markets were closed today. |
| 0:22.0 | They had, I think, Canada today up north. |
| 0:24.8 | It's unfortunate that we can't really celebrate, you know, wholeheartedly on the 4th of July. |
| 0:32.3 | And it's such a great American holiday. |
| 0:34.0 | But unfortunately, all the traditions that we're supposed to be honoring were lost generations |
| 0:39.8 | ago. |
| 0:40.8 | All the freedoms and individual liberty, the values that are founding fathers risked their |
| 0:45.3 | lives and their honor and sacred fortunes to fight for have all been lost. |
| 0:51.3 | And so whatever it meant to be an American at one point in time, no longer has much |
| 0:56.0 | meaning at all today. |
| 0:57.0 | In fact, we'd probably be better off had we not fought the war and had we still been |
| 1:01.2 | a British colony provided, of course, that the British treated the American colony the |
| 1:05.6 | way they treated Hong Kong. |
| 1:07.4 | Because you know, until I turned Hong Kong over to the Chinese, certainly there was a |
| 1:12.5 | very prosperous country, one of the freest in the world. |
| 1:15.8 | And even since the handover to China, Hong Kong remains a much freer place to live than |
| 1:22.1 | the United States. |
| 1:23.1 | In fact, even if we had been handed over to China, and America was a Chinese colony, and |
| 1:28.0 | China treated America the way China treats Hong Kong, we'd be in much better shape than |
| 1:32.5 | being an independent nation because we have really screwed ourselves over in a way that |
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