Peter has such a clear way of explaining economics in terms that everyone can understand. We need more people like him if we're going to fix this fucked up situation.

@fountaincap

10 жыл бұрын

I agree. I'm a big fan of Schiff so I've watched most of his videos and yet this particular video, though it's a couple of years old now, is sitll one of the clearest and best articulations of the case for Austrian economics and a refutation of the Fed. Good job, Reason and Schiff!

@AcctistaZ

3 жыл бұрын

7 years later nothing changed. It got worse

@agent9184

2 жыл бұрын

pretty sure we're not fixing this situation, like peter said, default or inflate. we can't default, we can only inflate. the solution? buy as much gold and silver and valuable physical assets as you can, be ready to depend on yourself for food and be ready to use valuable skills for income. prepare for the worst and hope for the best.

@MidnightCrash

11 ай бұрын

BIGGEST REGRET? LISTENING TO SCHIFF ABOUT GOLD YEARS AGO. HE’S A FRAUD !!

"If Ben Bernanke was in charge in 1930's, who knows, we might still be in that depression"... lol.

"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else." -Winston Churchill.

@carbinepeepoo

3 жыл бұрын

this gives me hope

@yunggolem4687

3 жыл бұрын

@@carbinepeepoo Might want to do some research on how much of a drunkard clown and Rothschild toady Churchill was before you take his word for anything.

@JoseTorres-lz9gu

3 жыл бұрын

@@yunggolem4687 ad hominem

@yunggolem4687

3 жыл бұрын

@@JoseTorres-lz9gu statement of facts

@benjaminpettibone4254

3 жыл бұрын

@@yunggolem4687 What’s weird or strange about your statement is that some of the most frequent abusers of alcohol have been extremely intelligent people from the many I have personally met. Not sure if the alcohol is some type of emotional release or what for them but it’s absolutely the truth. So please, please come up with a different excuse than that regarding Churchill. He is actually a very intelligent person from all accounts in history. He’s flawed like the rest of us including yourself.

God this is ominous listening to this in March 2021

@michaelmonsoon3919

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, they are intentionally tanking the dollar.

@viirusiiseli

2 жыл бұрын

and yet, they're still at 0,25% interest rates right now!

Someone has got to be wrong. And It definitely isn't Peter Schiff

@horus4862

7 жыл бұрын

How do you know? Have you tried to actually think for yourself? Give it a try

@mikemeyer1888

6 жыл бұрын

does the truth hurt ? because i dont see peter lying.

@firstlast3507

4 жыл бұрын

👍🏼

@juanok2775

4 жыл бұрын

How about now? We are still in the bubble and now is worst!

@patbateman2088

3 жыл бұрын

@Eddie Morra so true

Gas costs the same today as it did in the 50's. Beautiful analogy that perfectly illustrates inflation of our currency. The price of gas hasn't increased the value of our money has decreased.

Peter is right except for one thing: BEN BERNAKE DOES understand how the economy works, he just got paid to not share the information.

@SillyFaces2

3 жыл бұрын

same w Schiff himself. Austrian school is atheist horseshit that favors the golddiggers

@harmanjotsingh4230

3 жыл бұрын

@@SillyFaces2 tf

This is a fantastic presentation. I've watched it a few times over the years. It should be mandatory viewing for anyone studying business/finance/politics/economics, and for any socialist authoritarian who believes greed and profits are to blame for societies problems.

@SillyFaces2

3 жыл бұрын

dumb. Austrian school is atheistic horseshit. Bernake school is too. Y'all are naive tools

@ChicagoMike85

3 жыл бұрын

@@magog6852 get out of here you anti s

@be12

3 жыл бұрын

@@SillyFaces2 Oh yes, it's a secret cabal of atheists /s

@SillyFaces2

3 жыл бұрын

@@be12 no, public. see wikimedia's dictatorship over their intelligent design & other fake articles. Maybe u worship Lenin too?

@SillyFaces2

3 жыл бұрын

@@magog6852 nope, Capitalism funds Socialism for self-interest profit. (See Wall Street 1904-1990 funding Lenin to Khodorovsky et al to massacre Christianity). Both Talmudic-Protestant manifestations of heresy / closet atheism. Your world-view is absurdly narrow. Keynes was a gay atheist eugenicist, and von Mises probably similar. Both of them manifestations of the same lineage from heresy-to-Talmudic-funded-Protestantism-to-Atheism. John 2:22 "Who does not believe in the Christ is a Liar"...affirmed in sociological empirical evidence.

Listening to Peter Schiff is like realizing one is living in a matrix

This is one of Peter's greatest speeches. This explains a lot of what is going on.

Because of the great efforts of Ron Paul, we have a partial audit of the Fed and they now post the institution's minutes online.

Peter is the man and brilliant doesn’t even begin to describe this prophet of all things economic. Love him and his dad Irwin! RIP

"if were to come back in a few years and show this chart we'd have to bore a hole through the ceiling because that's where it would be" 😂😂😂

I love this man he opened my eyes and i learned a lot from him..

Peter Schiff: Gives 1 hour lecture Also Peter: Ok now try to prove me wrong

"If you start flirting with inflation, it will end up marrying you." -- Otmar Emminger, Former President of the German Bundesbank

I love how Peter makes multiple great points with multiple great explanations on each of those great points on why we were better off without the fed and the questioners try to pick out 1 or 2 of those great explanations of the great points and discredit them..

My right ear feels lonely.

@Hannibal082

8 жыл бұрын

Why?

@camoronL

7 жыл бұрын

Most of the sound is coming through the left side.

@keesdenheijer7283

4 жыл бұрын

@@camoronL Exactly the way it works in politics.

@niupaidanui

4 жыл бұрын

Kees den Heijer 😂

Schiff is a legend. So passionate that it's actually quite entertaining and funny to watch. Around the 45 minute mark: "if we were to wait a couple of years," referring to the consumer prices chart, "we'd have to bore a hole in the roof to show you were it would go." Lol...

For years, we've NEEDED someone strong enough and honest enough (a real leader) to tell harsh truth(s). Of course, it always helps to have a populace that thinks, and questions.

This is probably the best video that I have had the pleasure of watching for a long time.

I have watched each and every one of Schiff's videos and some of them multiple times

Crazy how relevant this is now more than ever.

I wish I was able to explain this info as quickly and as clearly as Mr. Schiff. Well done. Keep sharing the truth,

He's become a better speaker over the last decade.

Just 7 min in and I already feel this will be one of the best lectures. Thanks!!

Watching the collapse today reminded me of watching this once before

I LOVE ReasonTV! Nick, you rule man. Mr. Schiff, you are the best ever. You speak truth to power, fearlessly. Thank you.

Government thinks business needs its help when help is hurt. And we keep letting them do it.

hahaha that was actually me, I was that guy.. the reason I did that was almost a natural reaction for me, I was so excited to ask Peter a question that raised my hand too quickly without thinking what exactly I was going to ask him. Luckily, Peter took someone else's question. The Presentation was brilliant, I thoroughly enjoyed it, and also Peter is a great guy, very friendly.

This is a fine performance, somewhat of a classic.

This plays perfectly today! June 2021

Thanks Peter, your knowledge of the TRUE state of how economies are manipulated is extremely enlightening and also extremely interesting.

I found that if you're listening through headphones, pull the jack out of the input slightly and it splits the signal (albeit slightly muted).

This prophetic video will go down in history just like the Peter Schiff Mortgage Bankers speech from 2006 that predicted the specifics of 2008 real estate crash in the US.

Many are suffering the “steak price is too high “ now. Just look at the grocery store. The display steaks are thin. Hamburger is getting pretty high too.

I give the Fed and 'A' for brainwashing. FREEDOM!

if people would simply understand the difference between a Title 26, U.S.C. "excise tax" vs. a direct tax the world would be a much better place ... for everyone.

It looks like Ben Bernake and all 36 of his friends came to give a thumbs down to this gem of a video...

2nd Falsehood -- @ around 4:40 -- the reserve system. While the Fed was created in 1913, all through the latter part of the 19th Century the banking system relied on a structure of correspondent relationships -- big banks supported medium-sized banks, medium-sized supported small banks, and the really big New York banks, like JP Morgan sat on top of this correspondent structure. Even the big New York banks were formed into an association to support one another during a Panic. The banking system (any banking system) works on credit -- creating credit instruments (loans, mortagages, etc.). So banks operate on leverage. Reserves protect that exposure to leverage. The Fed can interject itself to play a role; or, as in the 19th Century, the correspondent relationships will provide some of that protection through their reserves.

Well, not enough people even know exactly what the FED is, and the more people that talk about it, the better.

GREAT LECTURE, even if I'm listening to it 11 years later.

Lol Bernanke's slides look like they were made by a middle schooler. The Great Depression one was priceless haha, and this guy is the freaking Federal Reserve Chairman??

This is just a brilliant speech on the truth. The Fed makes money cheap. People use the cheap money on risky investment and create a bubble. Bubble break and Fed print more money. Problem just repeat. No cure

I think the inconsistencies on the macro side of things become less relevant if one sees markets being more Austrian. In the analysis of markets and policy, and for those who wish to acknowledge Austrian principles, the volatility doesn't cause so much of a panic. This is because, I believe that fundamentally, Austrian economics puts focus on individualism rather than stability of the market as a whole. Although there are instabilities, it allows for the eventual growth of more stable businesses

Thank You for this post !! Appreciate it !! Keep Stacking !!

To those who question "well yeah limited government and all but what about social safety nets for the losers of capitalism" and to that I answer "that's what saving is for". The choice, to save or not, is true freedom, and with freedom comes responsibility. Or free money? No responsibility.

Peter is the best. I had the chance to finally meet him in Scottsdale in Jan. 12' to a standing room only crowd. His firm Euro Pacific Capital, has been my brokerage firm now for almost 4 years. I feel I have learned from the best over these 4 years of listening to his talks, radio shows and blogs.

Exactly, but you forgot to add the part about Bernake being wrong consistently about everything he's forecasted throughouthis entire career.

Peter Schiff is awesome.

Peter Schiff should have played the Wolf of Wall Street instead of Leonardo di Caprio

@NightwatchRebel

6 жыл бұрын

then the movie would be called the bear of wall street

Nice presentation which thoroughly demolishes Bernanke and the Fed. What's sad is people still believe that we need the government to spend even more to get out of this hole we are in.

Outstanding..thank you Peter

Right ok. See my understanding comes from Murray Rothbard. The reason Glass-Stegall was in a way necessary was because the government decided to insure all of the depositors deposits up to about 250k I believe, which essentially is in implicit bailout guarantee for the depositor's respective bank. Insuring deposits is the problem more than Glass-Stegall is the solution because of theses banks were exposed to competition and forced to stand on their own 2 feet, no such guarantee would be needed

"Assuming the Fed could maintain inflation at 2.0%, what would be the negative consequences?" Monetary inflation is necessarily always a redistribution of wealth to those closest and from those furthest from the central bank. This redistribution effect is, afterall, why counterfeiters exist. In the case of inflation, wealth is taken from those who are rewarded for their production, and given to the political class. It is a tax disproportionately hitting those least involved with government.

We agree that strong labor and middle class is a staple of this country, but we must not lose track of where this came from

Great video, I've been waiting for Reason to go after the Fed.

You gotta be on your toes and speak quickly to keep up with Peter. If you start dragging your words or take too long to think he’s already got 5 thoughts flooding his brain and he’s gonna cut you off and finish his point lol.

thanks for the education

When it comes to finance, this guy is a prophet.

Only lenders of money and holders of debt dislike deflation. Unfortunately, that means bankers and government, so we're screwed.

Peter Schiff is the best explaining economics and keeping it REAL!

competition isnt existing in todays market because of government intervention, we follow keynes in society which unforttumatly creates monopolies

Libertarians are the only people who will go to a speech just to argue with the speaker lmao

I believe Peter Schiff. I don't just listen when he speaks I hear and remember what he has said.

You CAN listen to Schiff's radio, every program is done free in real time and it can be downloaded for free for one day after it is posted, you only have to buy membership to get old programs or if you want to see video.

Everything he has said in this video from 9 years ago is more relevant today and all blossoming to its purest extent in front of our eyes.

One must do own research and have actual business to really understand economic and finance. Study history and current events and trends are very important. Peter gave very detailed broad about the Fed, and past/present/ future USA economics.

Plus, in response to one of the questions asked towards the end, there is such a thing as international trade.

These problems originated with the "always listen to your elders" and "don't question authority" generations.

Thanks Reasontv, for redeeming yourself.,

They do want a healthy economy and a happy population. But they think the way to achieve that is through central planning. Their motives are only bad to the extent that they are willing to bully others into compliance with their schemes (and of course they are very willing to do that), but broadly speaking they want a roughly similar overall result as most of us for the economy. In other words, it isn't so much broader motives that are the problem, but rather their means and their hubris.

We had a modified gold standard during the GD, which was further modified during the GD, plus the Fed contracted the money supply at the beginning, which ALL economists agree is 'deflation', leading to price deflation. There was some price inflation during the whole GD period, but there was mostly massive price deflation, not inflation. It's not enough to SAY you are on a GS, while at the same time inflating the money supply. That is what led us to close the gold window.

That was a very educational lecture, but I noticed at the end of the Q&A, probably because of time pressure, Peter Schiff answers a comment from the BLS guy by conflating price inflation with monetary inflation. He knows better than to do that as they have strong correlation but are distinct concepts.

The inflation during the Great Depression was not because of the gold standard, it was because of the excess credit that the Fed dispersed into the market. The founders mistake with the bi-metallic standard is that they set the ratio of silver to gold at 16:1 when the market value was actually like 16 and 1/2:1; my point being, the government should get out of money. You cannot predict the value of anything. The only perfect monetary system is one that is free from government intervention.

The historian Frederick Lewis Allen explained much in his book 'Only Yesterday' published in the early 1930s. What Allen understood that most economists somehow fail to see is that the main driver of our boom-to-bust economic experience is our dysfunctional land markets. Actions by government and the central bank have exacerbated but have not caused recessions and depressions. A number of economists who have focused on "land market cycles" go back to the insights of Adam Smith and Henry George who saw that the privatization of the rent of land (i.e., of assets created by nature, not by us) acts as an enormous stress on economic activity. The result is to encourage the hoarding of land and land speculation. When fueled by easy access to credit the stress is that much greater. And, yes, the Federal Reserve by its actions made matters worse. After the crash of 2007 the Fed has set the stage for yet another land market surge and crash. The next one will be that much worse because the so-called recovery has been extremely uneven and has not helped many people below the top 10 percent.

@parnelijones5462

9 жыл бұрын

Edward Dodson The Federal Govt owns almost half of the US in the west, just 4% of NY. They hoard. The rest you can buy and use.

@nthperson

9 жыл бұрын

Parneli Jones Our history and the emphasis on states rights is complicated by the fact that only the first 13 states were, for a time, sovereign nations. They were united only loosely under the Articles of Confederation. When independence from Britain was won on the battlefield, these 13 nations acquired a vast unsettled territory. The middle of what became part of the United States was acquired by purchase. Texans fought a war against Mexico to become a sovereign nation, then chose to join the United States. And, the remainder of the territory was taken from Mexico by force. The Federal government retained control over much of this vast territory, keeping it (ostensibly) in trust for the entire nation. Perhaps new arrangements are needed to more effectively manage these lands and the resources they hold. Neither the state governments nor the Federal government have done a very good job of managing the public domain in the interest of us as citizens. So, where do we turn for real stewardship?

@parnelijones5462

9 жыл бұрын

Edward Dodson 3% of Mexico`s population was in the area we "stole". I guess you think the US owns the fucking moon, since we planted a flag? If you want the land "managed" by the people, you need to let the people fucking OWN it. I live in a house. Its private land. A house is something people need.

@nthperson

9 жыл бұрын

Parneli Jones Actually, I hold the view that no person, no group of persons, no entity or organization can claim exclusive ownership of any portion of the planet. Access to the earth and the resources provided by nature are (or ought to be) the birthright of all persons equally. We need laws to protect our legitimate private property (e.g., our homes and other things we possess). We also need laws that prevent a few among us from controlling huge parts of the globe, putting fences up and preventing others from entering or using the land in order to survive. In short, we need laws that prevent monopolies of all sorts. And, as Winston Churchill declared in the early 20th century, "land monopoly is the mother of all monopolies."

@parnelijones5462

9 жыл бұрын

Edward Dodson Oh, I must be confused. I didnt know all the homes and land under them were a monopoly. I was under the impression that I have owned homes, and others too. How many is a monopoly? 10 million? 100 million? My boys wernt born with home ownership. Everything was already owned! Boo, fucking hoo. Nothing left to own! Oh my! Horrors! They own 6 homes between them now. BUT! Everything was owned by monopoly!

Great explanation, but I'd like to hear his explanation of why the housing bubble, which began in the mid- to late-1990s, didn't bust after the Fed raised rates in the early 2000s?

How much of a factor did the IPO(dotcom) bubble effect the housing bubble? Did the FED overreact or over correct in its fiscal policy to shore up the economy?

Yes. Read the description.

Fantastic!

Where do you find these historical price index charts?

One major issue I have with the gold standard: being the monetary base, how is the gold supply supposed to be able to keep up with economic growth? If it doesn't do that, since all the gold held in reserves must represent all purchasable output more or less, for each cycle of growth an ounce of gold will be redeemable for more and more real wealth, in other words, it will become more expensive in real terms, which will severely hinder its non-monetary uses like in industry or jewelry.

53:48 I didn't think that Peter could possibly top any of his previous analogies! The obesity analogy was excellent

thank you peter schiff Respect all the L.A

The sound is all in the left channel. Love the presentation but hard to listen to due to technical problem.

would love to hear a question about crypto added to the gold standard ?

"it will become more expensive in real terms" No. What you are describing is everything BUT gold becoming cheaper in real terms due to economic growth. People's purchasing power of gold remains unchanged, while increased production makes everything else more accessible. So what you describe about gold availability would be no more a problem under a gold standard than it is today.

I would love to get a better answer of that "what happens if all the world's gold ends up in USA". What does that mean? Does it mean that whenever a country imports a good (and exports gold) we get deflation?

Do you have a source for that stat?

Um, where's the left channel audio? Great speech, btw.

Hey how can we get DVD copy's of this to spread the word to our friends family's and other Christians that understand what our government is doing?

Watching this in 2021

I understand that sentiment, since guys like Walter Block advocate to getting that economics degree to learn all the different classes of it if you want to be well respected by your opponents. It'd be nice if university economics courses just taught supply & demand but with words like Aggregate" mixed in (Aggregate Supply/Demand) there might as well be different schools competing to get students to learn under them.

I saw your comment despite the removal. We agree on some points, but disagree on many. You just ignore that the 19th century, which was the greatest time for American investment, was done without any govt subsidy at all. Not only did the Industrial Revolution literally make us the most wealthy nation ever, but it create such production, that we were pulling people out of poverty left and right lol. We created the middle class, its a by-product of private investment, not the other way around.

thanks for the upload!

Since Hoover was obviously not Austrian in his policies, and was only 7 months President at the crash, no. His failure to veto the SH tariffs was only the most immediate cause of a crash that was building for about six years. But his unprecedented interventionism, continued by FDR, are what made the recession so uniquely long (10-15 yrs instead of the usual 1-4 yrs).

Proper lighting and audio are important.

The world is about to change drastically!

is their a bubble about to burst like the 08 crash. Doing research!

Damn Schiff goes in on Bernanke I love it!