Comments on: Schiff the Communist?

By: Greg0658

Greg0658 — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:32:43 +0000

franklin411 and Stuart beginning at 12:55pm for 7 minutes

I did not know the facts that:
call me ahab FACTED at 1:30 pm “everyone is aware that Peter Schiff’s father is a tax protester and is in jail”
Stuart your lines did not come out clear to the unknowing .. that “your” was directed at F411s father as a slam in jest (I imagine)

By: VennData

VennData — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:31:27 +0000

OK, so Peter Schiff wins the 2009 Stopped-Clock award.

All his ranting about the Fed, gold, government… he’s simple a lite-supremacist.

By: QBall

QBall — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:11:47 +0000

Here is the link to the Daily Show episode with Peter Schiff

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/06/peter-schiff-on-tds/

By: Pat G.

Pat G. — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:06:20 +0000

Let them poke all the fun about Schiff that they would like. Because in the end, he who laughs last, laughs best….

By: CNBC Sucks

CNBC Sucks — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:58:10 +0000

Ritholtz, I finally realized today that if given enough time and comments, some of your threads go completely off the rail into Off-Topic Land. In fact, commenters invariably go back to their old soapboxes such that different threads begin to converge into the same arguments, thereby becoming almost indistinguishable from each other. Since I am the commenter most likely to be repetitive from thread to thread, I would like to know: What are the ground rules for regarding your posts as having “lapsed into open thread”, in the way that intellectual property sometimes “lapse into the public domain”?

By: franklin411

franklin411 — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:47:34 +0000

This is scary:

Mr. von Brunn,[the gunman who killed a security guard today at the US Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC] whose latest address is believed to be in Eastern Maryland, was convicted in 1983 of trying to kidnap members of the Federal Reserve Board two years earlier. In that incident, he was captured by a guard in the board’s headquarters after running to the second floor, where the board was meeting. He was carrying a revolver, a hunting knife and a sawed-off shotgun in a shoulder bag, the police said.

Mr. von Brunn, who lived in Lebanon, N.H., at that time, told the police he wanted to take board members hostage to focus media attention on their responsibility for high interest rates and the nation’s economic difficulties. He was sentenced to four years in prison for attempted kidnapping, burglary, assault and weapons charges.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/11/us/11shoot.html?ref=arts

I can’t believe he only got 4 years for that. He would have spent longer in prison had he been caught with a rock of cocaine in his pocket!

By: Bruce N Tennessee

Bruce N Tennessee — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:30:48 +0000

Ahab:

There are some things that are merely difficult, and then there are things that are impossible..

By: Bruce N Tennessee

Bruce N Tennessee — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:28:48 +0000

OH….never mind…

By: Bruce N Tennessee

Bruce N Tennessee — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:28:29 +0000

Well, if Schiff is a blogger, then he must be a columnist….

By: CNBC Sucks

CNBC Sucks — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:21:28 +0000

I once called this guy “Peter Shit” and for that, I apologize. Half the spew I leave on this blog now is based on theses by the likes of Peter Schiff and Marc Faber. However, I think Schiff and Faber are wrong about the timescales of “the collapse”. Because America is still unaccountable for its profligacy, we are able to postpone bad times in the near future in exchange for a genuine recknoning with reality in a decade or so.

I will always vote for the Democrat in any general election, but being a registered Republican, I would certainly vote for Peter Schiff over Old Man Kudlow in the primaries.