It’s Going To Be Awful

Peter Schiff appeared on CNBC this week with a dire warning on America’s economic future – “It’s gonna be awful!”

Do you guys remember the financial crisis of 2008? Did you think that was bad? This is going to be worse.”

“The dollar only started to rally because everybody believed the Fed’s program actually worked, that we had a real, sustainable recovery, that the Fed could actually normalize policy, raise interest rates, shrink its balance sheet, and everything was going to be fine. That’s why the dollar started to rally…Now people are just beginning to realize that that wasn’t true – that the policy didn’t work. If fact, it not only didn’t work, it made everything worse. We’ve dug ourselves into a deeper hole. People are going to find that out now when the Fed can’t raise rates, when they have to go back to zero and when they have to do QE4, and so I think the dollar is going to implode.”

“The dollar is falling and gold is rising when people still expect the Fed to raise rates. Imagine what is going to happen when they expect a cut.”

“Once the Fed has to admit that we’re in a recession, what are they going to do? They’re going to cut rates. They’re going to start printing up a bunch of money. The dollar is going to tank. Commodity prices are going to rise. And all of a sudden a lot of the emerging markets are going to be in better shape.”

“Even though the Fed hiked rates in December, real rates are lower today than they were in December because inflation has increased more than that quarter-point rate-hike, and that’s going to continue. So, imagine what happens when the Fed starts cutting rates as inflation is getting worse. And then real rates really tank and the dollar just drops through the floor.”

“All we’re doing now is giving more drugs to a drug addict and that is not going to solve the drug addict’s problem.”

Reprinted from SchiffGold.com.

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