The Peter Schiff Show Podcast

In 1914 the Fed ran on 40 people and no computers. Today it takes 23,000. Fire them all and let AI do it... it can't do any worse.

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Kevin Warsh delivered his first congressional testimony as Fed Chair, and Peter Schiff breaks down a hearing where everyone discussed inflation while misdefining the term and ignoring their own role in causing it. June CPI came in at -0.4% versus the expected -0.1%, dropping year-over-year inflation to 3.5% — but the entire decline came from a temporary oil price drop that is already reversing as the Iran war reignites and oil climbs back 20% in July. Bond yields tell the real story: the 30-year is back near 5.1% and the 10-year near 4.6%, erasing nearly the entire post-CPI rally.

Schiff's biggest revelation from the hearing: the Fed employs 23,000 people to do a job that required just 40 when it opened in 1914 — with no computers — and argues the entire institution could be replaced by a single AI or abolished outright. He dismantles Warsh's claim of "regime change" at the Fed as being as fake as regime change in Iran, exposes the redefinition of "price stability" to mean prices that rise just slowly enough that people stop complaining, and shows how the 2% target was always a lie invented to justify inflation. He covers Warsh admitting inflation is a tax while planning to keep levying it, the court throwing out Trump's self-negotiated IRS settlement that granted his family immunity, and the AI CapEx bubble turning tech's biggest cash generators into massive borrowers that will break the bond market.

Chapters:
00:00 AI Spending Arms Race
01:08 Markets Brace for CPI
06:07 CPI Surprise and Gold Whipsaw
07:34 Oil Driven Inflation Mirage
11:40 What Inflation Really Means
14:11 Congress and Fed Share Blame
17:58 Fed Headcount Shock
22:32 Two Percent Target Myth
27:05 Regime Change and Price Stability
33:40 Day One Recap Continues
34:09 Grow My X Account
35:13 Congress Inflation Theater
36:06 Trump Grift Claims
37:30 IRS Settlement Outrage
39:51 Rates Versus Balance Sheet
41:08 Who Wins Low Rates
43:46 Fed And Black Workers
49:09 AI Bubble Warning
51:15 Hyperscalers Debt Spiral
55:38 Bond Market Breaking Point
58:16 Strategy Stock Dilution
01:00:30 Bitcoin Levels And Regrets
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A new housing law just passed that guarantees prices go higher. Bonds are breaking. And every bank bullish on Bitcoin refuses to buy Stretch.

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The Iran peace deal collapsed and the war is back on, yet US stock markets barely reacted — the AI bubble powering tech kept the S&P and Nasdaq positive while gold and silver sold off, with gold closing at $4,019 and silver falling 3.5% below $60. Bond yields climbed back to cycle highs with the 10-year at 4.56% and the 30-year at 5.06%, and Peter Schiff sees a major breakdown ahead that will hit stocks, housing, and crypto simultaneously.

The 21st Century Road to Housing Bill became law without Trump's signature, and Schiff argues it will make housing worse, not better. Nine decades of government housing policy — every program sold as making homes more affordable — have produced the least affordable housing in American history, because subsidizing demand raises prices and the money ends up in sellers' pockets. Trump has openly said he wants home prices to rise, in the middle of an affordability crisis. Meanwhile SpaceX fell 36% from its highs in under two weeks with every open-market buyer underwater and lockup expirations still ahead. Every Wall Street firm covering Bitcoin is bullish — Citi at $82K, Standard Chartered at $100K, Bernstein at $150K, JP Morgan at $170K — yet not one is buying Stretch at $87.48, where a 13.7% yield proves the market doesn't believe Bitcoin can appreciate 12% a year. They don't believe their own forecasts.

Chapters:
00:00 Markets Defy Bad News
01:38 War Tensions and Metals
05:11 Bond Yields Warning Signs
06:57 AI Bubble and IPO Mania
11:42 Bitcoin Hype and Wall Street
17:07 Dollar Flat Oil Rising
18:09 Housing Bill Political Fight
19:54 Affordability Crisis Explained
24:16 How Subsidies Inflate Prices
32:03 Bubble Collateral Trap
32:58 Jobs Report Media Spin
34:40 Housing Supply Not Subsidies
37:20 Save America Act Debate
41:25 Voting Rights Republic Critique
52:49 Democracy Incentives Corruption
57:12 Two Party No Choice
58:42 Podcast Wrap Up

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Iran deal dead. DOGE dead. Saylor selling at a loss. Medieval serfs kept more of their income than you do. I warned you about all of it.

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The Iran peace deal collapsed and the war is back on, with Trump acknowledging he was "two weeks from a depression" when he agreed to the MOU — a confession Peter Schiff says handed Iran all the leverage. Oil jumped 6% to $75, but the real story is bond yields: the 10-year hit 4.58% and the 30-year 5.07% — nearly at cycle highs despite oil being 25% below its peak, proving the debt, not the war, is driving yields higher.

FOMC minutes revealed that 9 of 13 members now support rate hikes after zero did just 90 days ago — theatrics Schiff says Warsh is orchestrating to appear hawkish without ever delivering. The May goods trade deficit exploded to $106.5 billion despite Trump's tariffs, continuing the pattern from his first term. DOGE was officially shut down with zero spending cuts achieved. Strategy sold 3,588 Bitcoin at a $15,000 per coin loss while Stretch sank to $86, and Trump's new savings accounts give kids $1,000 in borrowed money they'll repay through inflation. Schiff closes by noting that medieval serfs kept 75% of their output — more than the average American keeps today — making modern taxpayers lower in status than feudal peasants.

Chapters:
00:00 Freedom Versus Slavery
00:46 Iran Deal Collapses
05:04 Markets React to War
07:15 Oil Bonds and AI Bubble
16:17 Fed Minutes Rate Hike Theater
21:28 Tariffs Inflation Excuses
26:10 Real Rates and Debt Trap
27:41 Trade Deficit Reality Check
30:03 AI Threat to Services Surplus
32:32 Democracy Deficits and Rights
34:59 Rights And Healthcare
36:28 Housing And Free Markets
40:08 Tax Cuts And Wealth Theft
45:55 Taxes And Modern Slavery
48:25 DOGE Shutdown And Bitcoin Crash

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Saylor authorized $1.25B in Bitcoin sales. 514K full-time jobs vanished. Trump made $2.2B selling access. 250 years later, we need another revolution.

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The June jobs report came in at 57,000 — half of the lowest estimate — with May revised down from 172,000 to 129,000. Full-time employment collapsed by 514,000 in a single month, bringing total full-time job losses since Trump took office to 2.24 million. The labor force participation rate dropped to 61.5% as 700,000 workers simply gave up, and manufacturing has lost 73,000 jobs despite Trump's tariff promises.

Michael Saylor officially surrendered the "never sell Bitcoin" thesis, establishing a "Bitcoin monetization fund" authorizing up to $1.25 billion in Bitcoin sales to maintain dollar reserves, buy back common stock, and repurchase Stretch preferreds trading at $87.80. He raised the Stretch dividend to 12% with mandatory increases ahead. Peter Schiff argues this transforms Strategy from the market's biggest buyer into its biggest seller, removing the bid that underpinned Bitcoin's price. Trump's financial disclosure revealed $2.2 billion in income — $1.4 billion from meme coins and tokens alone — while Mar-a-Lago membership hit $1 million and the Executive Club charges $500,000 for a restaurant seat next to cabinet members. Peter closes with a 250th Independence Day reflection, arguing Americans today face more tyranny than the colonists ever did under King George, and that the revolution we need now must happen at the ballot box.

Chapters:
00:00 Holiday Intro and July 4th Tease
00:37 Jobs Report Shock and Revisions
03:43 Full-Time Jobs Slide and Tariff Reality
07:29 Fed Rate Hike Theater and Gold Bounce
16:28 Bitcoin Strategy Turns Seller
29:57 Meme Coins as Bribes
31:09 Paying for Trump Access
34:26 Debt Gimmicks and Deficits
35:38 Independence Day and Founding Ideals
45:45 Modern Tyranny and Peaceful Revolution

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Stretch hit $71 intraday. Strategy down 85% from peak. The first lawsuit just landed. And CNBC has gone completely silent.

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The Strategy death spiral accelerated dramatically this week. Stretch preferred stock plunged 18% to close at $79 after hitting an intraday low of $71 — a 29% loss from par that wiped out more than two years of dividend income in weeks. Strategy common stock crashed 30% in a single week and is now down 85% from its peak, trading at a massive discount to its Bitcoin NAV. The first class action lawsuit was filed against Strategy, and Schiff expects tens of billions in total legal liability from both Stretch and common equity holders.

Saylor continued selling common stock to buy Bitcoin despite each purchase destroying shareholder value — diluting Bitcoin per share at the current discount. Schiff argues this is done solely to maintain the illusion that Strategy is still a buyer, propping up Bitcoin's price at shareholders' expense. Bitcoin fell 8.3% to below $60,000 but is only the beginning — with Strategy sidelined as a buyer and ETF holders sitting on losses, there is no marginal buyer left. Gold traded below $4,000 and silver dropped to $56 intraday before recovering, but Schiff sees this as the likely bottom of the correction and the buying opportunity of the cycle. Alan Greenspan died at 100, and Schiff eulogized him as the architect of modern monetary inflation who proved that even a gold bug will choose inflation when given the power of the printing press.

Chapters:
00:00 Death Spiral Warning
01:50 Stretch Ponzi Explained
09:36 Why It Must Collapse
18:41 This Week’s Crash Data
28:57 Lawsuits and Market Fallout
33:14 Gold and Silver Bottoming
34:43 Fed Hype and Inflation Reality
39:11 Greenspan Legacy and Gold Signal
43:21 Dump Crypto Buy Metals
52:43 Ford Wage Myth and Wrap Up

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