Matthew Piepenburg
Partner Matt began his finance career as a transactional attorney before launching his first hedge fund during the NASDAQ bubble of 1999-2001.Thereafter, he began investing his own and other HNW family funds into alternative investment vehicles while operating as a General Counsel, CIO and later Managing Director of a single and multi-family office. Matthew worked closely as well with Morgan Stanley’s hedge fund platform in building a multi-strat/multi-manager fund to better manage risk in a market backdrop of extreme central bank intervention/support. The conviction that precious metals provides the most reliable and longer-term protection against potential systemic risk led Matt to join VON GREYERZ.
The author of the Amazon No#1 Release, Rigged to Fail, Matt is fluent in French, German and English; he is a graduate of Brown (BA), Harvard (MA) and the University of Michigan (JD). Along with Egon von Greyerz, Matthew is the co-author of Gold Matters, which offers an extensive examination of gold as an historically-confirmed wealth-preservation asset.
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Silicon Valley Bank Collapse: Just how safe is the banking system? Matthew Piepenburg shares his views.
On Wednesday 8th March 2023, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) announced a loss $1.8B from sale of investment securities. Investors and Depositors got spooked, withdrawing estimated $42B+ in cash within a f...
Matthew Piepenburg / March 15, 2023
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Making Common, Golden Sense of the Next Senseless Bank Crisis
Two Failed Banks. The tech-friendly SVB story (i.e. FDIC shutdown) is actually preceded by another failed bank, namely the crypto-friendly Silvergate Capital. Corp, now heading into voluntary liquidat...
Matthew Piepenburg / March 13, 2023
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California Dreaming – Staatsmetapher für eine Scheiternde Nation
Im Folgenden betrachten wir den US-Bundesstaat Kalifornien als Metapher für einen gescheiterten Staat aber auch als Metapher für das Scheitern des amerikanischen Staatenverbunds.
Matthew Piepenburg / March 10, 2023
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California Dreaming—State Metaphor for a Failing Nation
We consider the State of California as the metaphor of a failed state as well as the failing state of the American Union, which is anything but a dream.
Matthew Piepenburg / March 8, 2023
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Powell’s Gettysburg Moment, the USD’s Waterloo & Today’s Open Madness
Regardless of what Powell says today, the real play is 3 to 4 moves ahead, which all point toward an inevitably weaker USD and thus an inevitably rising gold price. Powell, of course, is more politic...
Matthew Piepenburg / February 22, 2023
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No Matter How You Turn It, The Global System is Already Doomed: Got Gold?
With inflation ripping and war blazing, many still argue that gold did not do enough. Hmmm… But gold in every currency but the USD (see above) would beg to differ. Furthermore, and as argued so man...
Matthew Piepenburg / February 8, 2023
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Bonds Die, CPI’s Lie & Gold Rises
Most investors, sensing a recession, are doing what most investors typically do in bad times: Make bad choices. Key among these bad choices is the traditional flight to long-dated US Treasuries as a...
Matthew Piepenburg / February 1, 2023
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Open Madness in Global Bond Markets: Got Gold?
The slow but steady implosion of global bond markets is no longer a debate but fact. Knowing this, investors can better brace themselves for the policy and market reactions to come. Here, we once aga...
Matthew Piepenburg / January 18, 2023
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2023: The ABC’s of CBDC, the Great Reset(s) & MORE Centralized Control
When broken, debt-soaked “developed economies” suffering from years of fantasy money printing to “solve” fatally rising debt levels collide with history-blind and economically-ignorant policy makers,...
Matthew Piepenburg / January 4, 2023
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History Lesson: Trust Gold Rather than Sovereigns
History (whether on battle fields or sports fields) is riddled with tragi-comical examples of human blundering (and hubris) in the face of otherwise obvious and self-inflicted risk—you know: The final...
Matthew Piepenburg / December 21, 2022
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