Peter Schiff's Online Star Turn
Money manager Peter Schiff was right about the falling economy. Now he is a rising star on YouTube.
More than a half a million people so far have tuned into a video montage called "Peter Schiff Was Right 2006-2007" on Google's (GOOG Quote) YouTube, turning Schiff, the president of Euro Pacific Capital, into something of a video celebrity. The video traces a series of Schiff's prescient calls on America's economic woes, starting in August 2006, when Schiff told CNBC that the coming recession "is going to be pretty bad ... and it's going to last not just for quarters but for years."
It also shows rosy forecasts, now proven incorrect, by economists and pundits including Ben Stein, Mike Norman and Arthur Laffer. ...
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