In her rate hike announcement last week, Janet Yellen said the Fed was so confident in the health of the US economy that it was raising the Federal Funds rate by a paltry quarter point. Investors are on board, with a wave of irrational exuberance sending the Dow closer to its 20,000-point milestone. However, the Fed's decision suggests the need for a strict comparison with its statements last December: a time when a similar expression of economic confidence would prove to substantially miss the mark for rate hike expectations and GDP growth.

In a special episode of the Schiff Report, Peter Schiff shows how the Fed's economic optimism is a ploy to maintain credibility with the markets and to cover up the fact that significant rate increases are impossible.