Peter Schiff – YouTube, Released on 2/19/26

Peter Schiff analyzes mounting evidence that the U.S. dollar is heading for a major decline, driven by exploding deficits and failed trade policies. With the national debt surging $2.6 trillion in just over a year under Trump, and trade deficits widening despite tariffs, Schiff argues that the same deficit spending Republicans blamed for Biden’s inflation is now accelerating under the current administration. Oil prices have surged 21% in two months, hitting six-month highs above $66, while gold holds support above $5,000 as central banks continue dumping dollars. The December trade deficit data reveals Trump’s tariffs are backfiring spectacularly – imports rising while exports fall, proving Americans pay 90% of tariff costs according to New York Fed studies. Housing markets show severe stress with pending home sales hitting record lows, signaling price corrections ahead. Schiff credits Trump for reducing FDA drug approval requirements from two studies to one, but argues this modest deregulation doesn’t address the fundamental problem of government interference in healthcare markets that didn’t exist before 1962.

01:33 Gold & Silver Snapshot: Buy the Dip Below $5,000
02:14 Oil Breakout: Why Gas Prices Are Headed Higher
05:42 Dollar Weakness #1: Exploding Deficits and the Debt Rollover Bomb
09:52 Tariffs, Taxes, and the Myth of 1880s Prosperity
15:54 DOGE, Elon Musk, and Why Government Can’t Be Efficient
20:14 World Ditches the Dollar: Central Banks Buy Gold
21:32 Trade Deficit Reality Check: December Numbers Blow Out
27:28 Tariffs Backfire: New York Fed Study Says Americans Pay
36:20 Twin Deficits → Inflation & Rates: The Macro Chain Reaction
39:22 Housing Bubble Math: Rates Up Means Prices Must Fall
42:04 Giving Credit Where Due: Trump’s FDA Change to One Efficacy Study
45:05 Before 1962/1938: How Drug Approval Worked in a Freer Market
53:28 Wrap-Up: Newsletter, Gold/Silver, EuroPac Funds & Upcoming Live Show

Peter Schiff is an internationally recognized economist specializing in the foreign equity, currency and gold markets. Peter is the CEO and Chief Economist of Euro Pacific Asset Management and Chairman of Schiff Gold. He’s also the author of the bestselling books: Crash Proof 2.0, The Little Book of Bull Moves in Bear Markets:, and The Real Crash: America’s Coming Bankruptcy – How to Save Yourself and Your Country.

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