Crash Proof 2.0: How to Profit From the Economic Collapse By Peter D. Schiff, John Downes

2010-07-19T00:26:00.000-07:00

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Crash Proof 2.0: How to Profit From the Economic Collapse
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The Phantom Recovery

2010-07-18T20:28:00.000-07:00

In recent months, GDP numbers have rebounded - primarily as a result of record low interest rates reliquifying the credit market and government stimulus jolting consumer spending. Although the "positive growth" has delighted Obama's economic brain trust, it has done little to boost the fortunes of Main Street. As I have said many times, GDP largely measures spending, and spending is not growth.

Last Friday we received the latest indication that the real economy is not recovering in the slightest. The Labor Department reported that non-farm payrolls increased by 431,000 jobs in May. In a press statement, the President himself crowed at the news, noting that the official employment rate fell to 9.7% from 9.9%. However, just inches below the headline, red flags were everywhere. Only 41,000 of those jobs were generated in the private sector - far below the median forecast of 180,000. Even more troubling was the fact that the Census Bureau alone accounted for 411,000 new jobs, which were almost exclusively temporary positions.

Rather than a recovery, the jobs data seems to indicate that we are still mired in the first economic depression since the 1930s. Back in 1931, two full years after the Crash of 1929, there were still very few people who thought that the recession then underway would one day be called the Great Depression. (See my commentary from March 1st "Don't Bet on a Recovery")

Increased spending, financed by unprecedented borrowing, will prove to be just as temporary as a US census job (unless, in the name of stimulus, Obama decides to make "people counting" a permanent function of the US government.). When the bills come...
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http://www.safehaven.com/article/17059/the-phantom-recovery

Mr. Schiff is one of the few non-biased investment advisors (not committed solely to the short side of the market) to have correctly called the current bear market before it began and to have positioned his clients accordingly. As a result of his accurate forecasts on the U.S. stock market, commodities, gold and the dollar, he is becoming increasingly more renowned. He has been quoted in many of the nations leading newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Investor's Business Daily, The Financial Times, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Dallas Morning News, The Miami Herald, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Arizona Republic, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Christian Science Monitor, and has appeared on CNBC, CNNfn., and Bloomberg. In addition, his views are frequently quoted locally in the Orange County Register.

Mr. Schiff began his investment career as a financial consultant with Shearson Lehman Brothers, after having earned a degree in finance and accounting from U.C. Berkley in 1987. A financial professional for seventeen years he joined Euro Pacific in 1996 and has served as its President since January 2000. An expert on money, economic theory, and international investing, he is a highly recommended broker by many of the nation's financial newsletters and advisory services.

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Peter Schiff on 2009-2010 USA Hyperinflation

2010-07-18T20:25:00.000-07:00

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http://www.videonewslive.com/view/288549/peter_schiff_on_20092010_usa_hyperinflation

Peter Schiff on Wall St. Unspun 30/6/10 6-6

2010-07-16T23:36:00.000-07:00

Peter Schiff has been warning about the current financial crisis since 2006, and other ‘experts” laughed at him… They aren’t laughing today.

Peter Schiff - Weak economic data, market volatility, China

2010-07-16T23:30:00.000-07:00

Peter Schiff has been warning about the current financial crisis since 2006, and other ‘experts” laughed at him… They aren’t laughing today.

Peter Schiff Was Right 2006 - 2007

2010-07-16T23:26:00.000-07:00