Comments on: Forbes vs Peter Schiff: Petty Smackdown

By: Antiforbean

Antiforbean — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 17:11:07 +0000

I have lost all respect for Steve Forbes and will never listen to that two-faced character assassin, visit his ad-spewing trash website or peruse his bloviated, vanity press yellow journalist publication again.

By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 02:11:23 +0000

My beef with Peter is that he hardly ever talks about US ASSETS..if you are going to rant about all of the negative issues (and there are a lot) you have to address the other side.

Staying open minded is very difficult. Moreover, Peter also does not mention the fact that Europe and several other areas have many of the same problems that the US does (Europe)

That being said….he keeps it interesting!

By: stockmarketadvantage

stockmarketadvantage — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 13:59:26 +0000

I agree with several of the posters above. This article was not praising George Gilder.

For all you Ken Fisher fans, here’s a quote from a column on 8/10/07:

“The current hysteria has all the markings of a true correction. It came out of nowhere, fueled by a big story (melting credit markets) that we’ll later see as no big deal.”

By: Martin

Martin — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 08:12:58 +0000

Peter Schiff’s maybe short on social skills and a sense of humour maybe, but he calls the markets right and all his TV discussions are on permanent display on his web site.
I think he is destined to be the Cassandra of the financial sector.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 23:39:32 +0000

Forbes is a generally terrible business magazine. Not just because they are often wrong, and irrational in their views, but also because they are hipocrites.

I just look at the entire mag as a badly done Op / Ed column, and leave it alone.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 23:39:19 +0000

“Have a shtick, get known, wait for your sector to get hot.”

I have some sympathy for Forbes, because this quote applies to a lot of no-talent bozos (Jim Rogers comes to mind), and I definitely agree with the premise. But I agree with your points as well – the article COULD have offered some evidence of bad calls by Schiff, and SHOULD have disclosed the relationship with Gilder.

By: EEngineer

EEngineer — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 22:04:48 +0000

It’s simple, Schiff is now well known enough to be a visible to TPTB so the political style smear is in.

By: johnw

johnw — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:33:27 +0000

Knowing that Crash Proof was composed in 2005 and reads like anything from today’s “dead tree media” business news, my money is with Schiff’s vision and not Forbes reactions.

By: Northern Observer

Northern Observer — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:48:07 +0000

financial Lysenkoism
Man that is brillant.

By: Mike G

Mike G — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:06:45 +0000

Forbes, like Kudlow, have become shills for financial Lysonkoism, where all market predictions must serve the Party Line of national-greatness optimism and Republican policies.