Peter Schiff and Tucker Carlson: The Financial Crisis Will Be Worse Than the Pandemic

• Peter Schiff and Tucker Carlson: The Financial Crisis Will Be Worse Than the Pandemic
  by https://schiffgold.com/
  Consumer Price Index (CPI) data for April came in much hotter than expected. Year-on-year, inflation is up 4.2%. The big number even prompted Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Richard Clarida to say, “We were surprised by higher than expected inflation data.”
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  Peter Schiff appeared on Tucker Carlson’s show to talk about the consequences of more printed money chasing fewer goods. Peter said inflation is going to hit the middle class harder than the pandemic. Peter said this hot CPI print is a cause for concern and ultimately it is a tax.
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  “It is the inflation tax. And if you look at how much the cost of living went up, measured by the CPI in the first four months of this year, it’s 2%. So, if you triple that to annualized it, we have consumer prices rising at 6% annually. But if you look at the monthly numbers, every month it accelerates. So, if you extrapolate the trend of the first four months of this year for the entire year, you’re going to get a 20% increase in consumer prices in 2021.”
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