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Anyone who’s watched markets for more than a minute knows one thing: big rallies don’t move in neat, polite lines. Even the strongest trends can be interrupted by sudden, jarring pullbacks — but that doesn’t necessarily mean the narrative has changed. That’s the message economist Peter Schiff is urgently trying to drive home.
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In fact, according to Schiff, who is also involved with SchiffGold, the biggest moves often run against the prevailing trend.
“When you’re in a bull market, the biggest moves are down. Just like in a bear market, the biggest moves are up,” he said in a recent episode of “The Peter Schiff Show.” (1)
“That’s because the market is trying to fool people into thinking that either the bull market is over or the bear market is over.”
And right now, Schiff says that’s exactly what’s happening in one asset: gold.
After a powerful multi-year climb, the yellow metal suddenly lurched lower — including plunging as low as 6.3% on Oct. 21, its steepest single-day drop since 2013. (2) Headlines flashed. Social media panicked. Some investors ran for the exits.
Schiff’s view? That’s a trap.
“In the case of gold, it’s a bull market and these sharp corrections are designed to scare out the weaker players — get rid of the dead weight, the excess baggage — before we move up to new highs,” he said.
Market tops, Schiff argues, don’t announce themselves.
“The market doesn’t ring a bell at the top or the bottom and so you don’t get this big drop that says, aha, the gold bull market is over,” he explained. “No, these big drops like that are a sign that the bull market is alive and well, it just has this correction.”
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‘A great buy below $4,000’
Markets have a way of swinging sentiment from euphoria to fear almost overnight. When gold was surging toward record highs, investors piled in and Wall Street analysts rushed to lift their price targets. (3) But once prices stumbled, anxiety followed — and some investors may be tempted to sell even below levels they were previously excited to buy at.
Schiff thinks that behavior gets it backwards.
“Gold is a great buy below $4,000,” he wrote in a recent post on X, noting that “it was just a week ago that gold almost hit $4,400” and adding that “those highs will likely not even be close to the peaks of this bull market.” (4)
In his view, the recent slide isn’t a warning — it’s a reset. Schiff argues that the pullback is “flushing out the sell stops below $4,000,” clearing out short-term traders who might otherwise weigh on the next leg higher. (5)
His conviction in gold comes from a longstanding distrust of fiat currency and concerns over inflation. When gold was trading around $2,600 roughly a year ago, Schiff made a bold prediction:
“If gold can go from $20 an ounce to $2,600 an ounce, it can go from $2,600 to $26,000, or even to $100,000. There’s no limit because, again, gold isn’t changing — it’s the value of the dollar that’s decreasing.” (6)
Gold appeals to some investors for precisely that reason. Unlike fiat currency, gold can’t be printed at will by central banks. It’s also widely considered the ultimate safe haven asset: not tied to any one country, currency or economy. In times of economic turmoil or geopolitical uncertainty, investors often flock to gold — driving prices higher.
Schiff isn’t the only prominent voice in gold’s corner. Ray Dalio, founder of the world’s largest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates, told CNBC earlier this year that “people don’t have, typically, an adequate amount of gold in their portfolio,” adding that “when bad times come, gold is a very effective diversifier.”
Meanwhile, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon recently said that in this environment, gold can “easily” rise to $10,000 an ounce.
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