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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPeter Schiff on Fox Business: Trump has fucked up the US economy (paraphrased)
He might as well had said this, the host tries to soften the statements,
but the Proof is in the Pudding
hatrack
(64,445 posts)Just . . delicious!
fujiyamasan
(1,392 posts)I knew hes a major gold bull and hes a major bitcoin skeptic. Hes called out Michael saylor (of microstrategy) out, whos running what basically is a Ponzi scheme.
Pluvious
(5,289 posts)His thinking is very my optic, he doesn't even appreciate some of the utility uses of some of the other blockchains.
And he won't acknowledge the risk that quantum computing poses to the future of the bitcoin network.
Fun fact, he made his original fortune by buying a bunch of domain names early, like love.com and many other common words.
fujiyamasan
(1,392 posts)I just knew he was infamous for losing a significant amount of money during the dot com days ($6 billion), and having to restate accounting their accounting. Pretty shady stuff.
He strikes me as an odd character. His investors strike me as a bit of a cult, like those of Tesla or Palantir and his weird tweets are those of a cult leader.
Lovie777
(22,131 posts)and shithole said he didn't care.
Johonny
(25,683 posts)When the president changes the deal mid-week for 2 to 3 days ...
Pluvious
(5,289 posts)He just goes with his gut
Prairie Gates
(7,435 posts)The only person he praises in the whole spiel is Elon Musk and DOGE, who were, according to him, "unfortunately run out of town."
His analysis of other parts of the economy were cogent, at least. Crashing the dollar is horible for the US economy, even though the Fox anchor tries to temper that judgment.
miyazaki
(2,606 posts)She even made an attempt to normalize the Greenland fiasco. Nice that the guest slapped back on that bs, and just laid waste to the dysfunctional economic reality we're facing.
roamer65
(37,824 posts)Moscow Donny.