Peter Schiff on Why Gold Will Replace Dollar, Coming Bond Market Chaos and Bitcoin vs. Gold

Natalie Brunell is joined by Peter Schiff, economist and gold advocate, for a fiery and wide-ranging conversation ahead of their live stage appearance at the Bitcoin Conference in Las Vegas.

Schiff doesn’t hold back, calling Bitcoin a “meme coin,” criticizing Trump’s economic policies, and warning that America is on the brink of economic collapse fueled by debt, inflation, and political dysfunction.

Topics discussed include:
- Why Schiff is still anti-Bitcoin despite holding his own “Strategic Bitcoin Reserve”
- Gold vs. Bitcoin: trust, counterparty risk, and final settlement
- Schiff’s take on the "Big Beautiful Bill" and why it guarantees higher deficits
- The myth of “growing out of the debt” and what needs to happen instead
- Foreign central banks ditching dollars for gold and what it means for the dollar’s reserve status
- How Schiff would fix the U.S. economy (but why it won’t happen)

Guest Bio: @peterschiff is the Founder, CEO and Global Strategist of Euro Pacific Capital and host of The Peter Schiff Show. He is an economic forecaster and investment advisor influenced by the free-market Austrian School of economics. His book, "The Real Crash: America’s Coming Bankruptcy – How to Save Yourself and Your Country," warns that the 2008 crisis was just the prelude to a larger sovereign debt crisis in the United States that may lead to a collapse of the US dollar. Follow Peter on X at https://x.com/PeterSchiff

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IN THIS COIN STORIES EPISODE
00:00 Bitcoin 2025 preview
3:34 Strategic Bitcoin Reserve
5:45 What is the Big Beautiful Bill?
9:24 Bitwise
9:54 Bitdeer Technologies Group
10:16 Can we grow our way out of deficits?
16:03 Helping the working class
22:10 QE, big print
27:53 Will gold be revalued?
32:22 Casa Business
32:52 Bitkey
33:12 The Bitcoin Way
33:35 Coinkite
33:50 Speed.app
34:05 Gold vs. Bitcoin debate
37:39 Will gold replace the US Dollar?
42:44 Memecoins
44:21 Neurtral reserve asset
49:11 Saving the US economy
57:58 How much gold is in Peter's portfolio?
1:02:28 Is Bitcoin money?

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Euro Pacific Capital https://europac.com/
Schiff Sovereign https://www.schiffsovereign.com/
Schiff Gold https://www.schiffgold.com/
The Peter Schiff Show https://schiffradio.com/

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