The Peter Schiff Show Podcast

Musk is worth $1 trillion with zero income. We're spending $1.6 trillion on interest. CPI is on pace for 6.2%. This is the peak of the bubble.

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SpaceX debuted as the biggest IPO in history, raising $75 billion at a $1.8 trillion valuation before closing above $2 trillion — making Elon Musk the first person worth $1 trillion. Peter Schiff puts this in perspective: JD Rockefeller, the previous richest American ever adjusted for inflation, earned the equivalent of $2 billion per year in actual income from Standard Oil. Musk has essentially zero income — SpaceX loses money and trades at 100x revenue — making his trillion-dollar net worth entirely a function of bubble valuations driven by decades of monetary excess.
Meanwhile, the May federal deficit exploded 32% year-over-year to $293 billion, with interest expense surging 44% to $133 billion in a single month — $1.6 trillion annualized, consuming 30% of all tax revenue. That's the entire federal budget from 1997 spent on interest alone. CPI rose 0.5% in May, putting 2026 on pace for 6.2% annual inflation — the highest since 2022 and potentially headed for 1981 levels. PPI came in at 1.1% for the second straight month, annualizing to 14%. Gold successfully retested its March low at $4,040 before recovering to $4,218, with mining stocks posting a positive divergence despite metal weakness. The Strategy death spiral deepened as Saylor diluted common shareholders to buy Bitcoin, destroying the "Bitcoin yield" narrative he built the company on.

Chapters:
00:00 Cold Open and Intro
01:23 SpaceX IPO Mania
03:18 Musk vs Rockefeller Wealth
06:31 Bubble Valuations Explained
09:59 Markets Week and Metals Drop
11:47 Gold Retest and War Narrative
17:20 Deficits and Interest Time Bomb
26:30 Inflation Data and Fed Boxed In
37:43 Other Markets Crypto and Wrap Up

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Saylor sold Bitcoin for the first time, Stretch hit $90, and the self-perpetuating death spiral I've been warning about just started.

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The tech wreck Peter Schiff has been warning about may have finally started. Bitcoin plunged 16% on the week to below $60,000, wiping out all post-election gains and pushing Strategy's 840,000 Bitcoin position $12 billion underwater. Stretch preferred stock fell to $90, triggering a potential death spiral: Saylor must either raise the dividend to prop the price back up — burning through his already depleted cash reserves faster — or watch holders flee, which craters both Stretch and Strategy, forcing the liquidation of all 840,000 Bitcoin at fire-sale prices.

Strategy sold 32 Bitcoin this week — the first sale ever — and Schiff argues this was a warning shot, not a one-off. The Nasdaq dropped 4.6% on Friday after a jobs report that showed 172,000 jobs created, 158,000 of which came from the birth-death model alone. Tech layoffs hit pandemic-era highs as companies redirect payroll savings into AI CapEx. Meanwhile, Trump valued Fannie and Freddie at a trillion dollars — a fiction Schiff dismantles, since the companies' mortgage guarantees are liabilities, not assets. Gold dropped 3.3% and silver fell 8.7% on algorithmic selling, but Schiff calls it the buying opportunity of the year as every macro force — collapsing real rates, forced Fed money printing, and the flight from risk assets — points to precious metals.

Chapters:
00:00 Death Spiral Warning
00:34 Market Turbulence Setup
01:43 Jobs Report Reality Check
08:51 AI Bubble Funding Crunch
17:26 Crypto Crash and Strategy Unwind
28:19 Crypto Treasury Unraveling
29:09 Ethereum Leverage Warning
32:56 Gold Silver Safe Haven
34:57 Bitcoin Down Year Math
43:07 Fannie Freddie Valuation Myth
50:47 Dollar Stress Value Rotation Wrap

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The US needs to borrow $20 trillion this year. Saylor just blew 60% of his cash paying off 0% debt early. The dominoes are falling.
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Donald Trump spent Memorial Day weekend claiming an Iran deal was 90% done — oil dropped $10 to below $90, but bond yields barely moved, with the 10-year still at 4.5% and the 30-year above 5%. Peter Schiff argues the bond market is telling the real story: with $13 trillion in debt maturing this year plus $3 trillion in new borrowing, the US needs to convince creditors to roll over nearly $20 trillion — an amount without historical precedent.
The AI CapEx bubble is now consuming a trillion dollars a year, funded by layoffs and foregone investment in actual manufacturing. Schiff compares it to dot-com: the technology is real but the stocks are wildly overvalued and most will go to zero when rising interest rates prick the bubble. Meanwhile, Michael Saylor burned over 60% of Strategy's cash reserves paying off zero-interest convertible notes three years early — a move Schiff says was forced by behind-the-scenes pressure, not financial genius. Elizabeth Warren accidentally made the best case against payroll taxes by pointing out that companies are incentivized to replace workers with AI because hiring people is taxed while buying computers isn't — though her solution is more taxes, not fewer.

Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:53 - Iran War & Market Reaction
06:47 - Bond Market & The Debt Crisis
14:25 - Ad Break: Ethos
15:47 - The AI CapEx Bubble
26:23 - Gold, Silver & Mining Stocks
29:11 - IRS Lawsuit & Bank Documentary
32:12 - Ad Break: Rockwell Automation
33:35 - Elizabeth Warren's AI Tax Proposal
47:28 - Strategy, Bitcoin & The Coming Bust
57:25 - Tokenized Gold vs Bitcoin
58:42 - Summer Sign-Off & 250th Anniversary

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Trump says best economy in 250 years. Consumer sentiment just hit an all-time low. Saylor just went underwater on $64B. Pick a story.

Kevin Warsh was sworn in as Fed Chair today while the Dow hit a record 50,700 — and Peter Schiff fact-checked virtually every claim Donald Trump made at the ceremony in real time. Trump called it the greatest economy in 250 years of American history; consumer sentiment responded by hitting 44.8, the lowest reading ever recorded. Year-ahead inflation expectations surged to 4.8% and 10-year expectations hit 3.9%, demolishing the Fed's claim that expectations remain "well anchored" at 2%.

Gold closed the week at $4,508 with silver at $75.39, both pressured by rising bond yields — with the 30-year still above 5% and the 10-year above 4.5%. Schiff argues these pullbacks are buying opportunities as real rates continue to collapse. Bitcoin dropped below Michael Saylor's $75,700 average cost basis for the first time, meaning five years and $64 billion of buying has produced zero return — while the Stretch preferred stock continues to compound an 11.5% annual obligation regardless. Schiff dissects Trump's lies about job creation, tariff benefits, government spending cuts, and the claim that fired federal workers are now earning double or triple in the private sector.

Chapters:
00:00 Warsh Takes the Helm
01:38 Dow 50K Hype Check
03:42 Gold and Silver Pullback
05:12 Yields Mortgages and Oil
07:44 Bitcoin Decouples and Strategy Risk
11:00 Consumer Sentiment Hits Record Low
16:11 Trump Speech Fact Check Begins
16:30 Massie Lies and Deficit Hypocrisy
21:30 Jobs Numbers Reality Check
22:07 Fed Independence Spin
23:11 Booms Bubbles and Inflation
24:31 Dow Rally Credit Grab
26:16 Spending Cuts Claim Debunked
26:48 Fired Workers Fairy Tale
29:33 Foreign Investment and China Deals
32:26 Tariffs and the Mythical Boom
33:50 Pessimism vs Trump Prosperity
35:43 Crisis Warning and Gold Pitch
37:00 Bitcoin Exit and Mining Stocks
39:25 Rates Tailwind and Sign Off

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Gold and silver pull back as WTI tops $107 and the 30-year hits 5.14% — Peter says plunging real rates make this dip a gift.

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Peter Schiff goes live to break down the market moves since Wednesday's podcast, with gold and silver pulling back as oil surges past $107 WTI and bond yields punch higher — the 10-year at 4.62% and the 30-year at 5.14%. Schiff argues the short-term selloff is being driven entirely by the nominal yield move, but with inflation accelerating, real rates are actually plunging — a setup that is deeply bullish for precious metals and exactly the buying opportunity stackers have been waiting for. He points to the positively sloped yield curve across every maturity as the bond market's clearest signal yet that higher rates and higher inflation are still ahead.

Schiff also delivers another Bitcoin reality check, walking through BTC's ongoing underperformance versus gold and the recent debates around long-term holdings, and explains why physical metals remain the only credible vehicle for real wealth preservation. The episode wraps with the latest on exploding deficits and a ballooning government, why true conservatives — and gold owners — are needed now more than ever, and fresh insights from SchiffGold on Comex flows and the increasingly urgent case for a return to sound money.

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